Bailiwick Definition

bālə-wĭk
noun
A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority.
American Heritage
The district of a bailiff.
Webster's New World
The office or district of a bailiff.
American Heritage
One's particular area of activity, authority, interest, etc.
Webster's New World

The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

The Bailiwick of Jersey.
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Other Word Forms of Bailiwick

Noun

Singular:
bailiwick
Plural:
bailiwicks

Origin of Bailiwick

  • Middle English bailliwik baillif bailiff bailiff wik town (from Old English wīc) (from Latin vīcus vicinity)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From bailie (“bailiff”) and wick (“dwelling”), from Old English wīc.

    From Wiktionary

Bailiwick Sentence Examples

  • The Teutonic Order (q.v.), surviving in the Ballarde (Bailiwick) of Utrecht, was officially established in the Netherlands by the States General in 1580.

  • A forester was "an officer sworn to preserve the vert and venison in the forest, and to attend upon the wild beasts within his bailiwick."

  • It is mentioned in Domesday only as a bailiwick of Newbold belonging to the king, and granted to William Peverell.

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