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bailiwick

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈbeɪ.lɪ.wɪk/Part of speech nounSorted abciiiklwStarts with BEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Word origin

From bailie (“bailiff”) and wick (“dwelling”), from Old English wīc.

Used in a sentence

  • The Bailiwick of Jersey.
  • I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.
  • 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.

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