May. 29th, 2007

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bailiwick-noun [bey-luh-wik]
1. the district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
2. a person's area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work: to confine suggestions to one's own bailiwick.

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His bailiwick was in medicine: he could name every possible cause or symptom of any disease that one named.
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