From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bailiwick \Bail"i*wick\, noun [Bailie, bailiff + wick a village.] (Law) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
2: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" [syn: {discipline}, {subject}, {subject area}, {subject field}, {field}, {field of study}, {study}, {branch of knowledge}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "bailiwick": Kreis, ambit, archbishopric, archdiocese, arena, arrondissement, beat, bishopric, border, borderland, borough, bureau, canton, champaign, circle, circuit, city, commissariat, commune, congressional district, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, constituency, county, demesne, departement, department, diocese, district, domain, dominion, duchy, electoral district, electorate, field, footing, government, hamlet, hemisphere, hundred, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, magistracy, march, metropolis, metropolitan area, ministry, municipality, neighborhood, oblast, office, okrug, orb, orbit, pale, parish, place, precinct, principality, province, quarter, realm, region, riding, round, secretariat, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, sphere, sphere of influence, stake, stamping ground, state, terrain, territory, town, township, turf, vantage, village, walk, wapentake, ward
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