company town | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)A town, city, or othermunicipalityin which a single large business has acontrollinginfluenceover theeconomyand, sometimes, over thesocietalstructure and the localgovernment.1917,Arthur B. Reeve, chapter 5, inThe Treasure-Train:The workmen lived farther along the line, in a sort ofcompany town, which at present greatly resembled a Western mining-camp, though ultimately it was to be a bungalow town.1946May 29,Westbrook Pegler, “Fair Enough”, inReading Eagle,page 4:Now here we have acompany towndepicted by our authority in the UMW [United Mine Workers] as one of the worst imaginablecompany towns, where the employer ran the schools, the local administration of justice, and even the churches.1994October 30, Penny Singer, “Bob Detmer, a Visionary Video Maker”, inThe New York Times‎[1],→ISSN:Back in the days when Poughkeepsie was acompany townand the company was International Business Machines, it wasn't unusual for 18-year-olds in Poughkeepsie to go straight from high school to I.B.M.2010February 10, Michael Schuman, “At Toyota's Home Base, Townspeople Are Worried”, inTime‎[2], archived fromthe originalon13 September 2012:The firm's sprawling factory complexes lie only a short distance from the town center, and, as in anycompany town, the paychecks of Toyota employees are the main source of support for its restaurants and shops.

Examples:

EN: A company law in a company town.
ES: La justicia de una ciudad ferroviaria.
EN: This is a company town.
ES: La empresa es dueña de la ciudad.
ES: Es una ciudad basada en la compañía.
EN: It's a company town.
ES: El pueblo es de la compañía.
ES: Es una ciudad industrial.
ES: Es una ciudad de negocios.
EN: It's a company town. Everybody talks to everybody.
ES: En una compañía todo el mundo habla con todo el mundo.
EN: I crossed the magistrate of this company town.
ES: Traicioné al magistrado de esta ciudad. ¿entienden?
EN: Cape City. A real company town.
ES: "Metrópoli del cabo." "La verdadera ciudad de la compañía."
EN: I come into a certain piece of knowledge, sir, that could make this more or less a fuckin' company town.
ES: Me encontré con cierta información, señor que podría volver al pueblo más o menos uno de la empresa.
EN: Eureka needs a mayor who understands how a company town works.
ES: Eureka necesita alguien que sepa cómo es un pueblo de una compañía.
EN: A company town in the middle of China.
ES: - Ordos. Es un pueblo de una compañía en medio de China.
EN: It's a company town in the middle of China.
ES: Es una ciudad de una empresa en mitad de China.
ES: Es una ciudad de una compañía en el medio de China.
EN: Especially if it's a company town.
ES: Sobre todo si se trata de una empresa de la ciudad.
EN: This is an old company town, silly.
ES: Esta es una antigua ciudad de la compañía, tonto.
EN: I don't know what she'd do under the circumstances, but this is a company town, and I need to maintain order, or the entire system falls apart.
ES: No sé lo que haría dadas las circunstancias, Pero esta es una ciudad de la compañía, y necesito mantener el orden, O todo el sistema se viene abajo.
EN: Hollywood's really just a small company town, and you're on the team.
ES: Hollywood no deja de ser como un pueblecito, y formas parte de él.
EN: [Ewing] The city of Wolfsburg, it just doesn't get any more "company town" than that.
ES: No hay mayor ciudad industrial que la de Wolfsburgo.

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