Usage of "company town"

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Place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer.

Ús de company town en anglès

Chickasaw happened to be a company town, owned by Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation. 
 Wired 

But it was a company town, the company being Lassen Interstellar. 
 The Reality Dysfunction 

When you get down to it, Silicon Valley is just a company town. 
 The Irish Times 

Despair was a company town but its road had to be a public thoroughfare. 
 Nothing to lose 

You don't know what a company town is like, then. 
 God’s Little Acre 

The third is Roxby Downs, a company town that serves a nearby copper mine. 
 Wired 

Mostly a company town, with maybe a thousand people, but still has some small claims. 
 The irish devil 

Nobel Prize winner In the early 1900s, an American company town sprang up near the Unsan mine. 
 Reuters 

Surely the Apaches would stay at least that far from a prosperous company town, however rough its manners. 
 The irish devil 

But Zee Town is to be a straight-up company town, and here the circumstances are a little muddier. 
 The Guardian 

It's a company town as well. 
 Reuters 

The incident has caused enough discord that a company town hall was called on Friday to address internal concerns. 
 The Guardian 

Dave Stelfox meets the couple who captured the death of a company town Rochester is a place built by photography. 
 The Guardian 

The studio itself, meanwhile, hopes the new company town will give it an extra edge in the competitive Atlanta media industry. 
 The Guardian 

If you're in a one- company town and the company goes down, there goes your job and there goes your home value. 
 Reuters 

Lead was a company town for decades, with the Homestake mine employing most of the area's workforce, mayor Dennis York said. 
 Wired 

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Significats de company town en anglès