Bailiwick

Quick meaning: Bailiwick is a noun meaning The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

Meaning

The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.

Example Sentences

The Bailiwick of Jersey.

I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.

This “feminist chortling” (as she calls it) about the disgraced royal is right in the bailiwick of the writer who virtually invented the term mansplaining.

Jack is full of these insights, thoughtful turns of phrase from a character whose perpetual struggle between wastrel and righteous is all too familiar a bailiwick for the universal insecurities of the human condition.

Word Forms

• bailiwicks

Synonyms for bailiwick

Depending on context, synonyms include jurisdiction, domain, department, sphere, province, territory.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bailiff, realm, jurisdiction, area, sphere, island.

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