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balywick

balywick is the alternative 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 balywick

pluralbalywicks

Questions about balywick

What is balywick the alternative form of?
Balywick is the alternative form of bailiwick.

Words near balywick in the dictionary

  1. Balwani
  2. Balwyn
  3. Balwyn North
  4. balyakinite
  5. Balykchy
  6. balywick
  7. balywicks
  8. Balzac
  9. Balzacian
  10. Balzacians
  11. Balzano

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Adapted from Wiktionary: balywick (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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