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company town


company town

noun

Definition of COMPANY TOWN

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

First Known Use of COMPANY TOWN

1927

Rhymes with COMPANY TOWN

Geneva gown, keep one's head down, let one's hair down, man-about-town, nervous breakdown, put one's foot down, with one's pants down

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