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company town

noun

Definition of COMPANY TOWN

:  a community that is dependent on one firm for all or most of the necessary services or functions of town life (as employment, housing, and stores)
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First Known Use of COMPANY TOWN

1927

Rhymes with COMPANY TOWN

Geneva gown, keep one's head down, let one's hair down, man-about-town, nervous breakdown, put one's foot down, with one's pants down

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