Bailiwick \Bail"i*wick\, n. [Bailie, bailiff + wick a village.]
(Law)
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the
limits of a bailiff's authority.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bailiwick
n 1: the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
2: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his
doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their
subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
[syn: discipline, subject, subject area, subject
field, field, field of study, study, branch of
knowledge]
WordNet (r) 2.0
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "bailiwick":
Kreis, ambit, archbishopric, archdiocese, arena, arrondissement,
beat, bishopric, border, borderland, borough, bureau, canton,
champaign, circle, circuit, city, commissariat, commune,
congressional district, constablery, constablewick, constabulary,
constituency, county, demesne, departement, department, diocese,
district, domain, dominion, duchy, electoral district, electorate,
field, footing, government, hamlet, hemisphere, hundred,
judicial circuit, jurisdiction, magistracy, march, metropolis,
metropolitan area, ministry, municipality, neighborhood, oblast,
office, okrug, orb, orbit, pale, parish, place, precinct,
principality, province, quarter, realm, region, riding, round,
secretariat, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke,
sphere, sphere of influence, stake, stamping ground, state,
terrain, territory, town, township, turf, vantage, village, walk,
wapentake, ward
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
BAILIWICK. The district over which a sheriff has jurisdiction; it signifies
also the same as county, the sheriff's bailiwick extending over the county.
2. In England, it signifies generally that liberty which is exempted
from the sheriff of the county over which the lord of the liberty appoints a
bailiff. Vide Wood's Inst. 206.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
branch of knowledge, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field
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