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)

Examples of company town in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

SpaceX has for years launched rockets from ⁠Cape Canaveral, ​Florida; Vandenberg Space Force Base, California; ​and Starbase, the company town in South Texas that has been home to its Starship development ​and test-launch operations. — Reuters, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2026

SpaceX previously faced community backlash, lawsuits and fines following environmental violations at its first Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, in the company town now known as Starbase. — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026

The workforce is largely international and seasonal; employees live in dorms and eat at a workers’ cafeteria, as if Medora were a company town whose primary product is the Medora experience. — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

He’s found that this ethos of doing the opposite of expectations works in his personal life, too, living in the global center of showbiz where influencer culture and content creators are carving out spaces within the company town. — Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 17 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1927, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for company town

• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown
• godown
• hometown