Noun: bailiwick bey-lu-wik
- The area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
"The sheriff's bailiwick included several rural counties"
- 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