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

Establishing Starbase as a company town helps SpaceX attain nearly unfettered permission to build, test or launch from its industrial complex on the Texas Gulf Coast. —Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 29 May 2025

That nearly unanimous vote made Elon Musk — in addition to the world’s richest man and the head of the DOGE initiative reshaping the federal government — the employer of the entire government of what amounts to a SpaceX company town. —Julia Shapero, The Hill, 5 May 2025

Streamlining the Journey From Starbase to Mars Converting Starbase into what will pretty clearly be a company town puts certain zoning, infrastructure and public services decisions and administration under the control of the new municipality. —Eric MacK, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025

Now, SpaceX will have the company town that Musk first publicly proposed in 2021. —Denise Chow, NBC news, 4 May 2025

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