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  • noun Plural form of bailiff.

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Examples

  • The consumer products financed by credit have also gone now that the jobs have gone and the bailiffs are a knocking at the door.

    Archive 2008-10-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • The justiciary nobles retained their judges, often called bailiffs, until the

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • There is the same Receiver-General of quit-rents, and the same local collectors, though not called bailiffs; the same system of land grants and quit-rents; and the same Escheator.

    The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1663-1729) 1894

  • I know more about football than high finance but the gist appeared to be 'if we keep winning stuff - which is likely if our ageing manager doesn't retire - we can pay you back; if he quits, and we don't win stuff, you may need to call the bailiffs'.

    Home 2010

  • Murray said he didn't believe the account, saying Carlson never called bailiffs as he was required.

    WANE TV 2009

  • Do you think he wakes at 5am, shitting it that the bailiffs will be there at 11 to take away his new Nissan?

    Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • How well he emphasized with a despairing moan the word "bailiffs," so as to convey the feeling of all the sinister formalities that would follow: bills protested, an execution, the royal hearth desecrated, the family turned out of doors.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • As a matter of course, councils contact people a number of times before starting legal proceedings or calling the bailiffs, "Sir Jeremy stated.

    The Latest From www.politics.co.uk 2009

  • Jan Brewer, and court staffers ranging from bailiffs and clerks to judges who came from across the state.

    Federal judge killed in Arizona shootings laid to rest 2011

  • Either she pays back the money or goes with the bailiffs.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

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