bailiwick : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bailiwick	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bailiwick
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bailiwick n the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction 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" Synonym(s): discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bailiwick \Bail"i*wick\, n. [Bailie, bailiff + wick a village.] (Law) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.