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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

法警

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fǎjǐng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bailiff/ˈbeɪ.lɪf/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #6500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"法警负责维护法庭秩序。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An official in a court of law responsible for executing orders, keeping order, and custody of prisoners.

    "The judge instructed the bailiff to remove the disruptive spectator from the courtroom."
  2. 2

    A manager, overseer, or legal agent who manages an estate on behalf of a landowner.

    "The estate's bailiff collected the annual rents from the tenant farmers."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French 'baillif', meaning a magistrate or legal official, originating from the Late Latin 'baivulus', meaning a governor or nurse. Historically, the term evolved from denoting a manager of an estate or a royal administrative official to its modern specialized legal sense of a court officer who maintains order and guards prisoners.

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