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bailiwicks

bailiwicks is the plural 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

Questions about bailiwicks

What is bailiwicks the plural of?
Bailiwicks is the plural of bailiwick.

Words near bailiwicks in the dictionary

  1. bailival
  2. bailivate
  3. bailivates
  4. bailiwick
  5. Bailiwick of Guernsey
  6. bailiwicks
  7. bailjumping
  8. Baillargeon
  9. Baillargeons
  10. Baillarger's syndrome
  11. baillie

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