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

Starpipe, which will end at SpaceX’s Texas company town of Starbase, is ‌expected to be in service by next January. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shortly before the opening of Nasdaq trading on Friday, Elon Musk stepped in front of a cheerful crowd at SpaceX’s company town in Texas. — Jordan Novet,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 13 June 2026

As local people protested the development of company towns and their poor working and living conditions, company owners sought to position themselves as agents of good by painting locals as backward and their lifestyle as unhealthy. — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026

People are close here, and those bonds have thrived since Port Costa Brick Works established its own company town in the early 1900s. — Katie Lauer, Mercury News, 8 June 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