bailiwick

[ UK /bˈe‍ɪlɪwˌɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈbeɪɫɪˌwɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
  2. a branch of knowledge
    anthropology is the study of human beings
    in what discipline is his doctorate?
    teachers should be well trained in their subject

How To Use bailiwick In A Sentence

  • With very few exceptions, they easily agreed that what was going on in their bailiwicks was incomparable and required a different approach.
  • Will decentralization really bring politics closer to the people, or will we be returning to a bunch of little bailiwicks?
  • Thus, it doesn't really monkey with the states' authority after all; it only makes sure they stay in their traditional bailiwick.
  • And she's looking at a couple of other projects, but that's kind of out of my bailiwick, if you will.
  • As Jim has mentioned, my bailiwick is law firm libraries, as opposed to academic libraries. Archive 2005-10-01
  • 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. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
  • Setting up the system, providing instruction manuals and pint-sized passbooks, teaching banks how to market and manipulate - these were the bailiwick of the young brothers Stout.
  • It was the signal for us to assemble in his bailiwick, where we would find a waiting cornucopia of edibles: apples, oranges, candy, dried fruits, nuts, cookies, soft drinks.
  • And it has done so even in areas where the crime at issue seems to be a crime that falls squarely into the state's bailiwick - and does not affect federal interests at all.
  • The term bailiwick dates to the mid-15th century and originally meant the district under a bailiff’s jurisdiction.
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