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plural bailiwicks
The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction. examples
A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority. quotations examples
I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.
1961, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Jack is full of these insights, thoughtful turns of phrase from a character whose perpetual struggle between wastrel and righteous is all too familiar a bailiwick for the universal insecurities of the human condition.
2020 September 28, Alex McLevy, “Marilynne Robinson finds transcendence in the stunning, soul-searching Jack”, in The A.V. Club