company town
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- noun
- /ˈkʌmpəni taʊn/
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pueblo industrial
- Pullman was established as a company town where all facilities catered to the employees.
And by the time of the parable of the talents, we see that there are these company towns where people flock to because they provide some sort of security.
- And by the time of the parable of the talents, we see that there are these company towns where people flock to because they provide some sort of security.
Examples
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Pullman began as a model company town in the 1880s.
Academic text (1994) -
They'd called the mine the Paradise, and soon Pandora became a small company town of two hundred citizens with its own post office.
Fiction book (2001) -
But I'm now living in a university town that is in many ways a company town.
Blog text (19) -
So think about company towns where the workers were stuck isolated out in some area.
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Gary was, in some ways, a company town, and the land company established by United States Steel built houses for its better-paid employees.
Academic text (1994) -
The modern mobile-home park seems to have become the contemporary equivalent of the company town.
Academic text (1997) -
Her oral history offers rich detail of the ways in which La'ie was both a company town and a Polynesian village.
Academic text (2008) -
The miners and their families occupied rude shacks in isolated company towns.
Academic text (2004) -
Long associated with mining, but also with other extractive industries, "company towns" were especially important features in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
Academic text (2005) -
The park's core in Calumet consists mainly of a company town and industrial landscapes, both of which existed before the establishment of Keweenaw NHP.
Academic text (2011)
How Company-Controlled
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Morphology
The meaning 'a community chiefly owned and operated by a single company' is directly built from 'company' (an organization) + 'town' (a settlement): a town associated with or belonging to a company. This compound noun follows a regular modifier + noun pattern that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The noun company town comes from places where the company owned the houses, shops and school and provided services for its workers. So, company town now means a community 'owned and run by a single company' where the employer controls most of daily life.