| fig., old.fash. |
a person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority (Synonyms: domain, department, jurisdiction, sphere, territory, turf, pale: I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.  wiktionary.org); area or subject of authority or involvement; the sphere in which one has superior knowledge or authority (a special domain: questions about organization of the fund drive are my bailiwick • … concerns at the spy agency that the Pentagon is intruding into its traditional bailiwick. • Her bailiwick as a child was the violin, but her stage act also included singing, dancing and even an escape-artistry act. • Reardon's usual focus is on using data from pulsar timing arrays to search for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, so magnets are a bit out of his bailiwick. merriam-webster.com); area of knowledge in which a person or institution has control or expertise (There is a faintly old-fashioned, even pedantic air to the term now, so use with caution.: My bailiwick is international relations. vocabulary.com) |
