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Meanings of company town in English

Russian
фабричный поселок
Portuguese
company town
Spanish
colonia industrial
Catalan
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.

фабричный поселок
Usage of company town in English
1
Chickasaw happened to be a company town, owned by Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation.
Wired
2
But it was a company town, the company being Lassen Interstellar.
The Reality Dysfunction
3
When you get down to it, Silicon Valley is just a company town.
The Irish Times
4
Despair was a company town but its road had to be a public thoroughfare.
Nothing to lose
5
You don't know what a company town is like, then.
God’s Little Acre
6
The third is Roxby Downs, a company town that serves a nearby copper mine.
Wired
7
Mostly a company town, with maybe a thousand people, but still has some small claims.
The irish devil
8
Nobel Prize winner In the early 1900s, an American company town sprang up near the Unsan mine.
Reuters
9
Surely the Apaches would stay at least that far from a prosperous company town, however rough its manners.
The irish devil
10
But Zee Town is to be a straight-up company town, and here the circumstances are a little muddier.
The Guardian
11
It's a company town as well.
Reuters
12
The incident has caused enough discord that a company town hall was called on Friday to address internal concerns.
The Guardian
13
Dave Stelfox meets the couple who captured the death of a company town Rochester is a place built by photography.
The Guardian
14
The studio itself, meanwhile, hopes the new company town will give it an extra edge in the competitive Atlanta media industry.
The Guardian
15
If you're in a one- company town and the company goes down, there goes your job and there goes your home value.
Reuters
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Lead was a company town for decades, with the Homestake mine employing most of the area's workforce, mayor Dennis York said.
Wired