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

As the chocolate company grew, Hershey dedicated himself to building a company town on land around his factory where his employees could live, work and play. —David P. Willis, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026

Imagine a company town hall where frontline workers ask about capital allocation and middle managers offer ideas on long-term strategy. —Vicente Reynal, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026

Los Angeles is a company town, and since late 2022, the area has shed about 42,000 industry jobs — a 30 percent drop in employment, according to Labor Department numbers recently reported by The Wall Street Journal. —Jennifer Silverman, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026

The development comes amid a flurry of construction for both Starship infrastructure and Starbase quality-of-life improvements across the company town that incorporated in May. —Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Feb. 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