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Bailiwick meaning
The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction. | A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
Synonyms of Bailiwick
Example sentences (11)
Sea angling around Guernsey and the other islands in the Bailiwick from shore or boat is a popular pastime for both locals and visitors with the Bailiwick boasting 12 UK records.
Tan says the challenge moving forward is to make greater inroads in Luzon, which is the bailiwick of its competitors in the growing distilled spirits industry.
Campos has lost 10 baranggays in his political bailiwick after the Supreme court transferred them to Taguig.
We’ve had weeks of government officials blaming one another for what may happen, with those at the top doing what they can to assure that the dismissals will occur mostly in someone else’s bailiwick.
Over the last couple of decades the Legislature has wrestled this power back and pretty much excluded the Governor from their bailiwick.
Bailiwick Express is one of Jersey's digital online news sources.
In 2000 there were 33 Deputies elected with three year mandates, and 12 Conseillers representing the Bailiwick, serving terms of six years, with half being elected every three.
In this example (dated 1594), Hugo Dietrich von Hohenlandenberg, commander of the bailiwick of Swabia-Alsace-Burgundy, shows his Landenberg family arms quartered with the order's black cross.
Several commanderies were combined to form a bailiwick headed by a Landkomtur.
These paintings were the subject of a set of commemorative postage stamps issued by the Bailiwick of Guernsey in 1983.
The States of Jersey Law 2005 established that no United Kingdom Act or Order in Council may apply to the Bailiwick without being referred to the States of Jersey.