bailiwick

• Besides, his bailiwick was the Civil War and what better metaphor could there be for a college campus? —  The Lesson of Her Death
• Heagarty's bailiwick is a crowded, primarily minority neighborhood in the biggest, most cosmopolitan city in the country. —  Omni: July 1993
• What I'm trying to say is, your basic religion doesn't seem to make much of a difference to your belief (or lack of it) in the things that are more in my bailiwick, which is any kind of contact with the dead. —  grave Surprise
• Well. That's your bailiwick, isn't it Mel Jordan's opponent in the mayor's race was Leonard Strange, an aging ex-hippie who lived in a home-built geodesic dome about a mile up the Gypsy Creek road. —  EQMM,November2007
• The neat handwriting didn't surprise her, given what she knew of John MacBride, but little of what she read made sense to her Sharon, this looks more like your bailiwick than mine The doctor looked at the file and frowned. —  Kay Hooper - Out Of The Shadows

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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