0 the surface layer of land on which grass is growing, consisting of the grass and the soil in which its roots grow, or a piece of this that is cut from the ground and is usually rectangular
2 a subject in which a person or group has a lot of knowledge or influence:
Antiques are very much her turf.
The gymnastics team won the championship on their home turf.
3 to cover a piece of land with turf
4 a surface layer of land consisting of grass and the earth in which its roots grow:
artificial turf
5 the area that a person or group considers its own:
The fight over high-definition TV standards has been a turf war among the electronics, motion picture, and recording industries.
6 an area of activity in which a person or company has a lot of knowledge and experience and which they believe belongs to them:
7 used to say that someone should accept something because it is a necessary part of what they are doing:
Nutrients and sediment in runoff from creeping bentgrass and perennial ryegrass turfs.
All those people are to be turfed out.
However, we cannot create such an environment simply by turfing out those who are causing the problem.
Contractors have been turfed out, and often penalised.
If someone turfs out the grit it is not at all clear whether that is an offence.
Such a scheme would save people from being turfed out of their houses.
They could not keep up the mortgage payments, so along came their fellow countrymen and turfed them out.
Their managers do not get "turfed out" in the manner in which tenants of public houses do.
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