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Definition of bailiwick : The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

Synonyms:

correction, battleground, sketch, discipline, field of battle, issue, national, work, topic, firmament, subject, department, subject area, cogitation, barony, case, orbit, sphere, field of force, field of operation, theatre, fief, field of view, field of operations, subject field, plain, landing field, playing area, line of business, walk, line, business, terrain, theater of operations, written report, playing field, field of honor, report, depicted object, field of study, element, theme, front, content, guinea pig, matter, airfield, specialty, fiefdom, bag, force field, scene, flying field, champaign, survey, world, game, study, demesne, branch of knowledge, athletic field, theatre of operations

hall, pen, amphitheater, precinct, ground, stage, courtyard, circus, auditorium, dominion, hippodrome, domain, field, gallery, room, region, enclosure, campus, turf, theater, Colosseum, area, setting, arena, battlefield, battle-ground, ring, gymnasium, realm, circuit, circle, locale, beat, province

dukedom, nation, county, territory, division, locality, city, parcel, country, zone, borough, kingdom, colony, commonweal, town, riding, earldom, tract, municipality, plot, empire, quarter, lot, canton, duchy, district, sector, Shire, place, neighborhood, state

Usage examples:

• Now that the cavalry had gone out to the front and more troops were marching up from the railway, all anxiety as to his immediate surroundings was dispelled, and the major could not avoid drifting back to the strange complications in which two of the prominent people of his military bailiwick were involved. - "'Laramie;' or, The Queen of Bedlam.", Charles King.
• It typified the slow tranquillity of the bailiwick, which was removed from the central life of the Five Towns, and unconnected therewith by even a tram or an omnibus. - "Hilda Lessways", Arnold Bennett.
• Let him be touched direct- by burglary, by theft, by embezzlement- and the yell he lets out wakes the entire bailiwick. - "In Her Own Right", John Reed Scott.