Bailiwick

Word BAILIWICK
Character 9
Hyphenation bail i wick
Pronunciations /ˈbeɪ.lɪ.wɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Bailiwick"

What do we mean by bailiwick?

A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority. synonym: field. noun

The office or district of a bailiff. noun

The county within which a sheriff exercises his office; the precincts in which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority, as (in England) a hundred, a liberty, or a forest over which a bailiff is appointed. noun

The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority. noun

The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction. noun

A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority. noun

The area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction noun

A branch of knowledge noun

The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.

A euphemism for a farm girl's private area. Urban Dictionary

A messed up person... Urban Dictionary

A person's area skill, knowledge, authority, ect. Urban Dictionary

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The word "bailiwick" in example sentences

As Jim has mentioned, my bailiwick is law firm libraries, as opposed to academic libraries. ❋ Unknown (2005)

What I'm trying to say is, your basic religion doesn't seem to make much of a difference to your belief (or lack of it) in the things that are more in my bailiwick, which is any kind of contact with the dead. ❋ Harris, Charlaine (2006)

And I think I'm probably taking you outside a little bit of your bailiwick, which is intelligence. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Also in my bailiwick was the International Court of Justice, the judicial arm of the United Nations, housed in the Carnegie-endowed Peace Palace. ❋ Daniel Schorr (2001)

The county within which the sheriff exercises his jurisdiction is still called his bailiwick, while the term bailiff is retained as a title by the chief magistrates of various towns and the keepers of royal castles, as the high bailiff of Westminster, the bailiff of Dover Castle, &c. ❋ Various (N/A)

An inferior court known as the bailiwick tried ordinary civil suits and breaches of the peace. ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

However, he said decisions about moves into Japan are not within Mr. Jacobs '"bailiwick," indicating the direction of regional development will be led by Las Vegas Sands management, rather than the Macau-based Mr. Jacobs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

WILLIS: I could go to a question though that I know is great in your bailiwick which is if I'm unemployed, can I still get a new loan? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rodgers that, not being in our "bailiwick," he could not give me a consular salute from his guns, he ordered the ship's steam launch, and, escorted by the Lieutenant, under our national banner, I soon boarded my ship. ❋ Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1885)

If she plans to constrain Bill Clinton to the traditional confines of the First Lady – that is, the bailiwick to which she was confined as First Lady, it means Bill Clinton’s sage advice will be about as useful as a taxi driver’s insight on a long trip uptown. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

From Canal Flats to Spillimacheen, you are perfectly scattered across the unique, sprawling community that I have had the privilege to call my 'bailiwick' and home since 1991. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The office or jurisdiction of a bailiff was known as his "bailiwick" (BAY-lih-wik). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The next day he, with other lodgers in the Tavern, was put through an examination by police and county officials from Saint Elizabeth, and notified that, while he was not under suspicion or surveillance, it would be necessary for him to remain in the "bailiwick" until detectives, already on the way, were satisfied that he possessed no knowledge that would be useful to them in clearing up what had now assumed the dignity of a "national problem." ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

The State Department, under Secretary Clinton's leadership, has been lambasted for conducting a shoddy review process for the pipeline it's their bailiwick, since the KXL will cross from Canada into the U.S. ❋ Brian Keane (2011)

"ADA Alexandra Cooper's 11th case takes her about as far from her bailiwick as head of Manhattan's Sex Crimes Unit as you can getinto the bowels of the New York Public Library." ❋ Unknown (2010)

I tell you this to warn you that we are all vulnerable and you should never - EVER - accept any sort of assistance whatsoever in this parking lot which is the bailiwick of thieves and a cesspool of mismanagement by the Ajijic WalMart´s incompetent staff. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Riding] that [horse] sure [hurt] my bailiwick! ❋ Grammarsnobbbb (2012)

[Trevor] is a bailiwick, [that fool]! ❋ Paul (2004)

[English] must be his [bailiwick], he gets such [good grades] in that class. ❋ Biblio (2009)

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