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

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

Its stucco walls and Spanish arches were once part of a Pacific Coast Borax company town, later abandoned when the boom ended. —Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026

Set in the 1930s in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, the show imagines Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge as the owner of a mining company town where his callous greed blinds him to the joys and gifts of the season. —Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 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