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company town 
a settlement or town built by and maintained by a company for its employees, sometimes in a remote part of the bush.
See also: open town
- 1929 . . . never losing sight of land until we reached Ocean Falls, a regular company town.
- 1962 Even today the Gaspe company town of Murdochville . . . is a scabrous word to Quebec labor unions.
- 1929 . . . never losing sight of land until we reached Ocean Falls, a regular company town.