bailiwick
IPA: bˈeɪɫɪwɪk
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.
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Examples of "bailiwick" in Sentences
- List of islands of the Bailiwick of Jersey.
- List of islands of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
- Obviously, this is a bit outside our bailiwick.
- Although actually Bailiwick already has a article.
- A bailiwick is a territory administered by a bailiff.
- A bailiwick is the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff.
- This is a shared endeavor and not the bailiwick of one.
- Rugby union in the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a popular sport.
- The culture of Jersey is the culture of the Bailiwick of Jersey.
- Alderney is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey but is largely self governing.
- As Jim has mentioned, my bailiwick is law firm libraries, as opposed to academic libraries.
- An inferior court known as the bailiwick tried ordinary civil suits and breaches of the peace.
- And I think I'm probably taking you outside a little bit of your bailiwick, which is intelligence.
- Also in my bailiwick was the International Court of Justice, the judicial arm of the United Nations, housed in the Carnegie-endowed Peace Palace.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.