Definitions for bailiwick
ˈbeɪ ləˌwɪkbaili·wick

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. bailiwicknoun

   the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction

2. discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwicknoun

   a branch of knowledge

   "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. bailiwicknoun

   the district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

   The Bailiwick of Jersey.

2. bailiwicknoun

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

3. Etymology: From bailie and wick, from wic.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bailiwicknoun

   The place of the jurisdiction of a bailiff within his hundred, or the lord’s franchise. It is that liberty which is exempted from the sheriff of the county, over which the lord of the liberty appointeth a bailiff. John Cowell

   Etymology: of baillie, Fr. and wic, Sax.

   A proper officer is to walk up and down his bailiwick. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   There issued writs to the sheriffs, to return the names of the several land-owners in their several bailiwicks. Matthew Hale, Origin of Mankind.

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1. Bailiwick

   A bailiwick is usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and once also applied to territories in which a privately appointed bailiff exercised the sheriff's functions under a royal or imperial writ. In English the original French bailie combined with '-wic', the Anglo-Saxon suffix (meaning a village) to produce a term meaning literally 'bailiff's village'—the original geographic scope of a bailiwick. In the 19th century, it was absorbed into American English as a metaphor for a sphere of knowledge or activity. The term survives in administrative usage in the British Crown dependencies of the Channel Islands, which are grouped for administrative purposes into two bailiwicks — Jersey (comprising the island of Jersey and uninhabited islets such as the Minquiers and Écréhous) and Guernsey (comprising the islands of Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Brecqhou, Herm, Jethou and Lihou). A Bailiff heads each Channel Island bailiwick. A bailiwick (German: “Ballei”) was also the territorial division of the Teutonic Order. Here, various “Komtur(en)” formed a Ballei province. The word is now more generally used in a metaphorical sense, to indicate a sphere of authority, experience, activity, study, or interest.

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1. bailiwick

   A bailiwick is a person's area of expertise, interest, or authority. It can also refer to a geographical area or jurisdiction under a particular bailiff or official.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Bailiwicknoun

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

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1. Bailiwick

   A bailiwick is usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and may also apply to a territory in which the sheriff's functions were exercised by a privately appointed bailiff under a royal or imperial writ. The word is now more generally used in a metaphorical sense, to indicate a sphere of authority, experience, activity, study or interest. A bailiwick was also the territorial division of the Teutonic Order. Here, various “Komtur” formed a Ballei province. The term survives in administrative usage in the British Crown dependencies of the Channel Islands, which for administrative purposes are grouped into the two bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. Each Channel Island bailiwick is headed by a Bailiff.

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How to pronounce bailiwick?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bailiwick in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bailiwick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of bailiwick in a Sentence

1. Darnell Earley:

   Unthinkable errors all underscore that Flint’s crisis resulted from improper treatment of the water, an issue which fell squarely in the bailiwick of (the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality) and EPA, we relied on the experts to verify that the water would not pose any threat to the community - the experts failed all of us.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bailiwick
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bailiwick
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=bailiwick
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailiwick
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bailiwick
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=bailiwick