Bailiwick

Definitions

1. The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
2. A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.

Equivalents

Examples

“The Bailiwick of Jersey.”

“I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.”

“Jack is full of these insights, thoughtful turns of phrase from a character whose perpetual struggle⟳ between wastrel and righteous is all too familiar a bailiwick for the universal insecurities of the human condition.”

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