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Webster 1913 Edition
Bailiwick
Bail′i-wick
,Noun.
[
Bailie
, bailiff
+ wick
a village.] (Law)
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff’s authority.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bailiwick
BA'ILIWICK
, n.[bailli, an officer, see bailiff.]The precincts in which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority; as a hundred, a liberty, a forest, over which a bailiff is appointed. In the liberties and franchises of lords, the bailiff has exclusive jurisdiction.
Definition 2024
bailiwick
bailiwick
English
Noun
bailiwick (plural bailiwicks)
- The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
- The Bailiwick of Jersey.
- A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
- 1961, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt:
- I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.
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Synonyms
- (area or subject of authority or involvement): domain, department, jurisdiction, sphere, territory, turf.
Related terms
Translations
precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction
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area or subject of authority or involvement
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References
- bailiwick in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913