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bailiffwick

bailiffwick is the obsolete form of bailiwick.

Meaning of bailiwick

Noun

bailiwick (plural bailiwicks)

  1. The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
    • The Bailiwick of Jersey.
    Synonyms:
    jurisdiction
  2. (broadly) A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
    • I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.1961, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Forms of bailiffwick

pluralbailiffwicks

Questions about bailiffwick

What is bailiffwick the obsolete form of?
Bailiffwick is the obsolete form of bailiwick.

Words near bailiffwick in the dictionary

  1. bailiffry
  2. bailiffs
  3. bailiffs-errant
  4. bailiffship
  5. bailiffships
  6. bailiffwick
  7. bailiffwicks
  8. bailing
  9. bailing on
  10. bailing out
  11. bailing out on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bailiffwick (page history and authors); bailiwick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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