"malapportionment" meaning in English

See malapportionment in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: malapportionments [plural]
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  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). Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: reapportionment Coordinate_terms: misdistribution, maldistribution, misallocation, misrepresentation

Inflected forms

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