A bailliwick is a district or place under the jurisdiction of a bailie or bailiff. In transferred use, mainly in the US, it means ‘one’s natural or proper place or sphere’, It comes from baillie, a synonymous term for bailiff and the suffix -wick, wike, the office, function of an official.
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