To be an integral part of some occupation or status, esp a part that is not especially delightful: At EPA It Goes With the Territory/ Tierney's answer was that such speculation ''goes with the territory''/ Such embarrassments come with the turf, however
[1960s+; fr the conditions implicit in a sales representative's covering of a certain territory, popularized by use in the Requiem section of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman]