Bailiwick

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  • noun. A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority. synonym: field.
  • noun. The office or district of a bailiff.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The county within which a sheriff exercises his office; the precincts in which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority, as (in England) a hundred, a liberty, or a forest over which a bailiff is appointed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
  • noun. a person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
  • noun. a branch of knowledge