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turf

noun as in earth

Strongest matches

Strong matches

noun as in personal territory

noun as in grounds

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By adapting Cash App to provide payroll services, Square is poised to muscle onto the turf of ADP and other HR giants.

From Fortune

These are struggles over ministerial appointments and over control of turf in the security landscape of Tripoli.

From Ozy

For the acorn woodpecker, turf wars aren’t just violent and potentially fatal—they’re a spectator sport.

There’s a sort of turf war between Hong Kong and its sister bourses on the mainland.

From Fortune

The turf war is not limited to the subscription side of the industry.

From Digiday

New York—and Brooklyn in particular—was familiar turf for Brinsley.

Trotter had fewer resources but he was playing on home turf.

There might be some opportunities on trade and tax policy, but those will exist about 75 percent on Republican turf.

The Democratic Party is defending more than a half-dozen seats on Republican-friendly turf.

Obama traveled to Tampa Wednesday to meet with Austin about the ISIS strategy on his own turf.

But having chosen the Champs aux Capuchins, it was idle to expect that one stretch of turf would prove firmer than another.

Round this stood a colony of roughly-built huts, of mud, turf, or large blocks of the slate.

In many respects like the Virginia planter, they differ somewhat in their taste in all that pertains to the turf and the field.

At the same time, it is a notorious fact that he has had heavy losses at cards and on the turf, which may account for everything.

The skull of a man grinned up at us, half sunk in the green turf, and the ends of ribs shewed how he to whom it had belonged lay.

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On this page you'll find 87 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to turf, such as: grass, lawn, sod, soil, peat, and sward.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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