malapportionment

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English

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Etymology

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mal- +‎ apportionment

Noun

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malapportionment (countable and uncountable, plural malapportionments)

  1. (politics) 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).