Bailiwick
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The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction;
the limits of a bailiffs authority.Bailiwick meaning & definition 1 of Bailiwick.
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the area that a person or an organization is interested in, is responsible for, or controls:
Bailiwick meaning & definition 2 of Bailiwick.
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Ones sphere of operations or particular area of interest.
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[A persons] area skill, knowledge, [authority], [ect].
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A [euphemism] for [a farm] [girls] private area.
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A [messed up] [person]...
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a branch of knowledge
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the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
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the district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
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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 sheriffs 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 bailiffs 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.Bailiwick meaning & definition 10 of Bailiwick.
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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
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