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.
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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
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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
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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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