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)
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Styles and Florence Pugh star in Don't Worry Darling as Jack and Alice, a young couple living in the seemingly perfect company town of Victory, California in the 1950s. 
Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022 Don’t Worry Darling follows Alice (Pugh) and Jack Chambers (Styles), a young, happy couple in the 1950s, living in the seemingly perfect company town of Victory, California, which has been created and paid for by Jack’s mysterious employer. Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2022 That includes coffee shop employees as well as staff for the foundation and its house tour project, which will allow visitors to tour the real homes of Pullman families from the company town period. Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022 In the film, Pugh and Styles play Alice and Jack Chambers, a seemingly happy couple living in a seemingly idyllic company town operated by the firm Jack works for. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2022 But Alcatraz was really like a small company town where the main industry was a prison. Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2022 Suggestion is a powerful aphrodisiac anywhere, but especially in a company town built on selling images. Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022 Disney presides over what earlier generations would have recognized as a company town, and baseball’s antitrust status is a giveaway to its ownership class. Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022 George Pullman completes Pullman, a company town on Lake Calumet. Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022 See More
Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022 Don’t Worry Darling follows Alice (Pugh) and Jack Chambers (Styles), a young, happy couple in the 1950s, living in the seemingly perfect company town of Victory, California, which has been created and paid for by Jack’s mysterious employer. Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2022 That includes coffee shop employees as well as staff for the foundation and its house tour project, which will allow visitors to tour the real homes of Pullman families from the company town period. Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022 In the film, Pugh and Styles play Alice and Jack Chambers, a seemingly happy couple living in a seemingly idyllic company town operated by the firm Jack works for. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2022 But Alcatraz was really like a small company town where the main industry was a prison. Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2022 Suggestion is a powerful aphrodisiac anywhere, but especially in a company town built on selling images. Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022 Disney presides over what earlier generations would have recognized as a company town, and baseball’s antitrust status is a giveaway to its ownership class. Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022 George Pullman completes Pullman, a company town on Lake Calumet. Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1927, in the meaning defined above