Used for planning the arrangement of a garden, building, or ground plan. Often refers to the process of marking out positions on the ground.
taking space; gaining territory
Go (囲碁) term: securing or expanding one's area on the board.
training in one's own stable
Sumo term: practice held within a wrestler's own stable, as opposed to joint training with other stables.
legwork; on-the-ground investigation
Police abbreviation of 地取り捜査 (じどりそうさ): investigative work such as interviewing neighbors and searching the area.
See also: 地取り捜査
After laying out the garden, we placed the plants.
There is also a strategy of prioritizing territory-taking in the opening.
Today is a day for training in our own stable, not visiting another.
The detectives are continuing their legwork.
neighborhood investigation; door-to-door inquiry near a crime scene
Compound of 地 (じ, 'ground, land, area') and 取り (どり, nominalized form of 取る 'to take'). The specific meaning depends on the domain: in gardening/construction it refers to laying out a plan on the ground; in Go it means taking territory; in sumo it refers to training on one's own ground (stable); in police work it is short for 地取り捜査, investigation by taking to the ground.