turf

Noun

• range of jurisdiction or influence
  • a bureaucracy...chiefly concerned with turf...and protecting the retirement system
    

• the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own

• surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots

Verb

• cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sod , sward , greensward