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Meanings of bailiwick in English

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A branch of knowledge.

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      Usage of bailiwick in English
      1
      Obviously it was undesirable that he should invade Perrot's bailiwick in person.
      The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of Frontenac
      2
      Gimpy Gordon scuttled out of my bailiwick almost on a dead run.
      The Big Fix
      3
      The questions, too, will be the same from bailiwick to bailiwick.
      The Irish Times
      4
      Mr. Schwab already was two miles from his own bailiwick.
      The Scarlet Car
      5
      But this was also his bailiwick, and he fell rapidly back into step again.
      Fine things
      6
      Delta was Jane Castle's bailiwick, and her plan was to play a waiting game.
      A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the coll...
      7
      This plan should become, by your influence, the text of all the bailiwick memorials.
      A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
      8
      You must keep out of her bailiwick if you want to keep her friendship.
      The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
      9
      Here is likewise a bailiwick, and a court of admiralty.
      Travels through France and Italy
      10
      This bailiwick also offered what might be euphemistically called 'business opportunities' to enterprising members.
      The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
      11
      In twenty-four hours I was hard at work writing up my then most ill-favored bailiwick.
      The Making of an American
      12
      If she wants to have her own bailiwick, she keeps that desire very well concealed.
      Dead to the world
      13
      Spear dominates the artistic bailiwick and performs antique antics for Art's sake: it was Mr.
      Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 / Little J...
      14
      Glass slides and databases were her bailiwick, not psychology.
      Takeover
      15
      And I'll be damned glad to get Johnstone out of my bailiwick, that I will.
      A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
      16
      Who is this Mule, that he should represent the majesty of the bailiwick of Grelot?
      The False Chevalier / or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette