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malapportionment
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English
Etymology
From mal- + apportionment.
Noun
malapportionment (countable and uncountable, plural malapportionments)
- (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).
- Coordinate terms: misdistribution, maldistribution; misallocation; misrepresentation
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