company town
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of company town
An Americanism dating back to 1930–35
Example Sentences
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The incident occurred in Starbase, a company town incorporated by SpaceX in 2025 near Brownsville, Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Industrialist Henry Ford was after rubber when he built the company town Fordlandia on a Connecticut-sized patch of Brazil’s Amazon forest in 1927.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
Now he sounds like an urban planner when he describes the process of transforming a company town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026
Pocahontas Fuel bought 1,000 acres and built a mine and mine camp that was a quintessential paternal company town.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
He did not, however, reduce the rents in his company town.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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