turf war

noun

1. a dispute between criminals or gangs over the right to operate within a particular area

2. any dispute in which one party seeks to obtain increased rights or influence

Example Sentences

Dogged management will also be essential to break bureaucratic inertia and turf wars among the services.

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The vote is taking place amid unprecedented violence sparked by turf wars and side hustles of drug trafficking gangs, a scourge which Noboa has vowed to tackle with a firm hand.

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The trial had previously heard Ms Penney was killed as a result of a turf war between two rival gangs dealing drugs in south Wales.

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But the big loser has been the lover of nonfiction history, as the founding era became a subject conscripted into a turf war over important moral and factual issues.

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The online gambling business had attracted Chinese criminal syndicates, who then began violent turf wars with each other.

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