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# bailiwick

«bailiwick» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person's area of skill, interest or responsibility:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (bailiwick, bailiwicks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person's area of skill, interest or responsibility: «Maths is her bailiwick». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bailiwick/#m1)

2) (UK, law) The area ruled by a bailiff; today Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands are each called a Bailiwick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bailiwick/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in jokey or formal talk about who is in charge of what; in geography, the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Phrases: «outside my bailiwick».

### examples

- Fixing computers is Dad's bailiwick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bailiwick/#x1)
- Jersey is a Bailiwick, not part of the UK. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bailiwick/#x2)
- Sorry, that's outside my bailiwick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bailiwick/#x3)
- The garden is Grandma's bailiwick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bailiwick/#x4)
- Guernsey and its islands form a Bailiwick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bailiwick/#x5)
- Planning the trip is my bailiwick this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bailiwick/#x6)

### note

Old-fashioned or jokey; everyday: «area», «job», «thing». Capital B when naming Jersey or Guernsey.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bailiwick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bailiwick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.