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bailiwick

/bey-luh-wik/US // ˈbeɪ ləˌwɪk //UK // (ˈbeɪlɪwɪk) //

辖区,辖区内,辖区范围,监管区

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
    • : a person's area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work: to confine suggestions to one's own bailiwick.

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Examples

  • As he traveled and collected he constantly sent back seed samples, hundreds of thousands of them in total, to the institutes and field stations under his bailiwick.

  • He does so, hands in his star and rides on, leaving his bailiwick in the condition his patrons wanted.

  • In 1429 the English occupied the bailiwick of Chaumont and garrisoned several fortresses in Bassigny.

  • Its tolerble late, if you happen to know it, and youre a little out of your own bailiwick, arent you?

  • Now these two bailiffs kept their bailiwick in peace many years, until they were said to be remiss in keeping the King's justice.

  • This guy, Lester, makes out a bond before we're within two days' drive of his bailiwick.

  • All relations between the two women had been severed irrevocably, each keeping to her own respective bailiwick.

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