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 The billionaire announced plans Tuesday to move SpaceX’s HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas, a company town being built in the southern part of the state. —

Alexandra Banner, CNN, 17 July 2024 New practices and policies were introduced to help reach diversity goals set by leadership, and for quite a few, this commitment was broadcast widely: centered in a CEO speech, a press release, a company town hall, on social media, or in internal messages to employees. —

Evan Apfelbaum eileen Suh, Harvard Business Review, 3 June 2024 At a company town hall last week, the trio revealed that bankers have been hired to sell its assets. —

Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 1 July 2024 That was management’s message in a company town hall meeting in Los Angeles on Tuesday. —

Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for company town

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