bailiwick
/'beiliwik/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A person's specific area of knowledge, skill, or interest: A subject or field in which someone has special expertise or authority.
- The district or jurisdiction of a bailiff: The area over which a bailiff has legal authority.
Usage Examples
- Noun (Area of Knowledge):
- Quantum mechanics is her bailiwick; she's published dozens of papers on it.
- As the marketing director, social media strategy is his bailiwick.
- Noun (Jurisdiction):
- The sheriff's bailiwick covered the entire county.
- The dispute fell outside the bailiff's bailiwick.
Advanced Usage
- "Within/outside one's bailiwick": Used to indicate whether something is inside or outside a person's area of responsibility or expertise.
- Budget planning is within the CFO's bailiwick.
- I can't answer that; hardware issues are outside my bailiwick.
Variants and Related Words
- Bailiff (n): A court officer entrusted with duties such as maintaining order in a courtroom or executing writs.
- The bailiff announced the judge's entrance.
- Jurisdiction (n): The official power to make legal decisions and judgments; an area of this authority.
- This crime falls under federal jurisdiction.
Synonyms
- Domain: A specified sphere of activity or knowledge.
- Province: An area of special knowledge, interest, or responsibility.
- Field: A particular branch of study or sphere of activity.
- Purview: The scope of the influence or concerns of something.
Idioms and Phrases
- "Not my bailiwick": A common phrase used informally to indicate that something is not one's responsibility or area of knowledge.
- You should ask the IT department about the server error; that's not my bailiwick.
Noun
- 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
- the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction