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    • Sommerundefined
      Sommer
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      the area that a person or an organization is interested in, is responsible for, or controls:

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        Bailiwick meaning & definition 2 of Bailiwick.

      • Mernaundefined
        Merna
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        Ones sphere of operations or particular area of interest.

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          Bailiwick meaning & definition 3 of Bailiwick.

        • Jason Yanundefined
          Jason Yan
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          [A persons] area skill, knowledge, [authority], [ect].

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            Bailiwick meaning & definition 4 of Bailiwick.

          • Julianundefined
            Julian
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            A [euphemism] for [a farm] [girls] private area.

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              Bailiwick meaning & definition 5 of Bailiwick.

            • Couch Potatoeundefined
              Couch Potatoe
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              A [messed up] [person]...

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                Bailiwick meaning & definition 6 of Bailiwick.

              • Agnesundefined
                Agnes
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                a branch of knowledge

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                  Bailiwick meaning & definition 7 of Bailiwick.

                • Ernestdydayundefined
                  Ernestdyday
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                  the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction

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                  • Tinaundefined
                    Tina
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                    the district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.

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                      Bailiwick meaning & definition 9 of Bailiwick.

                    • Yespasmnundefined
                      Yespasmn
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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.

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                      • MonicaLesundefined
                        MonicaLes
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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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