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malapportionment

malapportionment noun: any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).

Noun

malapportionment (countable and uncountable, plural malapportionments)

  1. Any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).

Forms of malapportionment

pluralmalapportionments

Origin of malapportionment

From mal- + apportionment.

Questions about malapportionment

What does malapportionment mean?
Malapportionment means any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).
What part of speech is malapportionment?
Malapportionment is a noun.
What is the plural of malapportionment?
The plural of malapportionment is malapportionments.

Words near malapportionment in the dictionary

  1. malapplication
  2. malapplications
  3. malapplied
  4. malappointment
  5. malapportioned
  6. malapportionment
  7. malapportionments
  8. malapposed
  9. malapposition
  10. malappositions
  11. malappropriate

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