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BAILIWICK(law)

bailiwick (iou)



bailiwick noun. LME.
[from BAILIE noun1 + -WICK.]
A district or place under the jurisdiction of a bailiff. LME.
Encyclopedia Britannica They [the Channel Islands] are..grouped into two distinct bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey, with differing constitutions.
b. transf. A person's concern or sphere of operations. Chiefly joc. M19.
E. Roosevelt I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.
The office or jurisdiction of a bailiff. obsolete exc. Hist. LME.