单词	bailiwick
释义	bailiwick /ˈbeɪlɪwɪk / noun 1 (one's bailiwick) One’s sphere of operations or area of interest: after the war, the Middle East remained his bailiwick... Thus, it doesn't really monkey with the states' authority after all; it only makes sure they stay in their traditional bailiwick. Here her analysis is most surefooted as she discusses late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century fiction, Benedict's professional bailiwick. And it has done so even in areas where the crime at issue seems to be a crime that falls squarely into the state's bailiwick - and does not affect federal interests at all. 2 Law The district or jurisdiction of a bailie or bailiff: the warden had the right to arrest all poachers found within his bailiwick... Will decentralization really bring politics closer to the people, or will we be returning to a bunch of little bailiwicks? With very few exceptions, they easily agreed that what was going on in their bailiwicks was incomparable and required a different approach. Their organization was strictly hierarchical, into priorates, then bailiwicks and lastly commanderies. Origin Late Middle English: from bailie + wick2.
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