bailiff

1. 1.

   an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.

   Broaderofficial

Other forms of bailiff

plural

bailiffs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bailiff

What does bailiff mean?

bailiff means "an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.".

How many syllables are in bailiff?

bailiff has 2 syllables: bai-liff. The stress falls on "bai". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪləf/.

Is bailiff a common word?

bailiff is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.