how to pronounce bailiff

/ˈbɛɪ.lɪf/

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bailiff is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of bailiff in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… this is the estate's river bailiff mark …”

meaning of bailiff

A bailiff is a person who is employed to collect debts or enforce court judgments.

bailiff frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word bailiff occurs in english on average 1.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics bailiff can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that bailiff can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;