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Noun: bailiwick  bey-lu-wik
  1. The area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
    "The sheriff's bailiwick included several rural counties"
     
  2. A branch of knowledge
    "in what bailiwick is his doctorate?";
    - discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study

Derived forms: bailiwicks

Type of: domain, jurisdiction, knowledge base, knowledge domain

Encyclopedia: Bailiwick