company town

noun

: a community that is dependent on one firm for all or most of the necessary services or functions of town life (such as employment, housing, and stores)

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Streamlining the Journey From Starbase to Mars Converting Starbase into what will pretty clearly be a company town puts certain zoning, infrastructure and public services decisions and administration under the control of the new municipality. Eric MacK, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025 Now, SpaceX will have the company town that Musk first publicly proposed in 2021. Denise Chow, NBC news, 4 May 2025 Sergio Flores | Afp | Getty Images Over the weekend, Elon Musk got his new company town along the Texas Gulf Coast. Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 5 May 2025 Still, there were no guarantees of how much green steel tech Gary would get; a company town inevitably depends on the whims and fortunes of its company. Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for company town

Word History

First Known Use

1927, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of company town was in 1927

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“Company town.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/company%20town. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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