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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPANY TOWN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPANY TOWN

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Company town is a noun.
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WHAT DOES COMPANY TOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Company town

A company town is a place where, at least initially, practically all stores and buildings are owned by the one joint-stock company that has a geographically-linked business need and so provides employment and infrastructure to support the effort. Typically, such towns are founded in a remote location, so that residents cannot easily commute or shop elsewhere, and as often, once a community takes hold and begins to grow, the company will sell off or rent properties within the town to increase their return on investment, in effect divesting themselves of the town property over time. Such towns are often planned with a suite of amenities such as bars, pool halls, swimming pools, markets and even theaters. In much of the world, perhaps especially in areas welcoming waves of emigration to fill a lack of skilled workers such as Australia and the United States, corporations explored, found desirable resources or land features to exploit, planned a settlement to support the business' needs, and then imported workers to build an infrastructure and more workers to staff the business needs—even paying trans-oceanic shipping passage when and where necessary.

Definition of company town in the English dictionary

The definition of company town in the dictionary is a town built by a company for its employees.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPANY TOWN

companionable
companionableness
companionably
companionate
companionhood
companionless
companionship
companionway
company
company car
company commander
company doctor
company law
company man
company manners
company pension
company secretary
company sergeant major
company time
company union

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPANY TOWN

boom town
chief town
commuter town
county town
downtown
garrison town
ghost town
go to town
hick town
home town
man about town
market town
new town
on the town
one-horse town
post town
resort town
shanty town
small town
spa town
twin town

Synonyms and antonyms of company town in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «company town» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPANY TOWN

Find out the translation of company town to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of company town from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «company town» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

公司镇
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ciudad de la compañía
570 millions of speakers

English

company town
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कंपनी शहर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شركة المدينة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

компания город
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cidade da empresa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কোম্পানী শহর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ville de compagnie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bandar syarikat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unternehmen der Stadt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

企業城下町
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기업 도시
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perusahaan kutha
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thị trấn công ty
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிறுவனம் நகரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कंपनी शहर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Şirket şehri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

company town
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miasto firma
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

компанія місто
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oraș companie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πόλη εταιρεία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

maatskappy dorp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

företaget stad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

company town
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of company town

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPANY TOWN»

The term «company town» is regularly used and occupies the 66.175 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPANY TOWN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about company town

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPANY TOWN»

Discover the use of company town in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to company town and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills ...
Examines how towns across the United States grew due to the presence of one large business in their community, the benefits and consequences to the towns, and the influence such development had on the American economy.
Hardy Green, 2012
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The Company Town : Architecture and Society in the Early ...
The most thorough-going and only international assessment of the company town, this collection of essays by specialists and authorities of each region offers a balanced account of architectural and social history and provides a better ...
School of Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John Garner Professor, 1992
3
Race, Redevelopment, and the New Company Town
Shows how private interests collaborated with public leaders, and often with neighborhood activists, in order to rebuild several neighborhoods comprising racially and economically-mixed populations in St. Louis.
Daniel J. Monti, 1990
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Company Town: Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch Lumber Company
This is the story of the Pacific Northwest in microcosm: the exploitation of natural resources; the impact of big business on the development of a rutal area; of ordinary people making a place their home.
Keith C. Petersen, 1987
5
Company towns of the Pacific Northwest
Looks at towns that flourished well into the 20th century in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia.
Linda Carlson, 2014
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Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a ...
In this new book Arnold R. Alanen brings to life Morgan Park, the formerly company-controlled town that now stands as a city neighborhood, and the U.S. Steel plant for which it was built.
Arnold Robert Alanen, 2007
7
Cannery Village: Company Town
A history of upcoast BC salmon canneries from 1870 to 1980 and the isolated communities that supported them, chronicling a now-vanished way of life in a distinct frontier culture.
K. Mack Campbell, 2004
8
Insane Sisters, Or, The Price Paid for Challenging a Company ...
In a riveting true tale of corporate power over the state, two Missouri sisters challenge the nation's largest cement company in a land dispute, which results in their land being seized and one of them being committed to a state hospital ...
Gregg Andrews, 1999
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Company Town
The poetic record of the last year in the life of a fictional salmon cannery on the northern coast of British Columbia: a remarkable, multi-voiced document that, in text and photographs, tells the poignant tale, through Turner's ...
Michael Turner, 1991
10
Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American ...
This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single companies seeking to bring their workers' homes and place of employment together on a ...
Margaret Crawford, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPANY TOWN»

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Company town? In Seattle, some are fretting over continued growth …
Company town? In Seattle, some are fretting over continued growth of Amazon. By Gene Johnson, AP July 8, 2015, 12:07 am TWN ... «China Post, Jul 15»
2
Greece Faces Another Income Inequality Squeeze Game
It might be in the form of the company town and company store near coal mines that kept workers in constant debt. Or it might be the usurious ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
3
Hantsport deserves to be better known
Up until recently, it was one of the finest examples around of that dying breed: the company town. The two major employers, Fundy Gypsum ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Jul 15»
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Manhunt Over and Patrols Gone, Calm and Quiet Return to …
Dannemora is a company town and has always been. A permanent settlement in the area dates from the late 1830s, only a few years before ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Company town? In Seattle, some fret over Amazon's growth (VIDEO)
Seattle, notorious for boom-and-bust cycles stretching back to the 19th century Alaska gold rush, is booming once again. Thickets of yellow ... «Greensboro News & Record, Jul 15»
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Volunteers work on Great Northern Railroad history project
Goodyear, along with a host of Somers Company Town Project volunteers, are working to create a permanent home for their town's history and ... «Flathead Publishing Group, Jul 15»
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WORLD FOCUS: Thoughts on the manhunt
In addition, people in Dannemora, a company town where most residents or family members work in the prison, the fact that the prisoners have ... «Lake Placid News, Jul 15»
8
Who's Speaking Up for the American Worker?
He'd spent his career nearby in the eponymous company town of Bassett, a place that used to teem with seven factories set along the banks of ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
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Batesville ponders its future without corporate mainstay Hill-Rom …
BATESVILLE, Indiana - What happens to a company town when the company leaves? Batesville may be able to shed some light on that ... «WCPO, Jun 15»
10
New book focuses on U.P. company towns
They were creating an exhibit about the company town located in Nahma, about 45 minutes from Escanaba. Holmes became interested in the ... «UpperMichigansSource.com, Jun 15»

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