Synonyms for bailiwick

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bey-luh-wik

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbeɪ ləˌwɪk

Définition of bailiwick

Origin : "district of a bailiff," early 15c., baillifwik, from bailiff (q.v.) + Middle English form of Old English wic "village" (see wick (n.2)). Figurative sense of "one's natural or proper sphere" is first recorded 1843.

noun domain

Example sentences :

But would she not find me, instead, and drive me out of her bailiwick?
Extract from : « Wood Folk at School » by William J. Long

Gimpy Gordon scuttled out of my bailiwick almost on a dead run.
Extract from : « The Big Fix » by George Oliver Smith

You must keep out of her bailiwick if you want to keep her friendship.
Extract from : « The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor » by Annie Fellows Johnston

Meere succeeded at the assizes in sustaining his right to the bailiwick.
Extract from : « Sir Walter Ralegh » by William Stebbing

Out of my bailiwick, cried the doctor—way out of my bailiwick.
Extract from : « The Doctor's Red Lamp » by Various

In England the sheriff is the monarch's bailiff, and his county is a bailiwick.
Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 » by Various

Carolyn May was quite as much puzzled by that expression as she had been by bailiwick.
Extract from : « Carolyn of the Corners » by Ruth Belmore Endicott

Now see here, my daughter, you're getting out of your bailiwick.
Extract from : « The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop » by Hamlin Garland

I go home, and I says to myself: 'I have that bailiwick to a man.
Extract from : « A Certain Rich Man » by William Allen White

In 1733 the bailiwick was transferred to Vevey and just seventy years later the castle became the property of Vaud.
Extract from : « The Spell of Switzerland » by Nathan Haskell Dole

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