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company-store

company-store is the alternative form of company store.

Meaning of company store

Noun

company store (plural company stores)

  1. A retailer of provisions and general merchandise, owned by a firm which operates a mine or other industry nearby, and at which the firm's employees are required to shop, to pay high prices, and to make payments through payroll deductions or a truck system, typically resulting in the accumulation of considerable employee indebtedness.
    • Skeelty, who thought he knew how to manage these people, allowed every man, at the close of work on Saturday, to purchase a pint of whiskey from the company store, charging an exorbitant price that netted a huge profit.1912, L. Frank Baum, chapter 9, in Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation

Forms of company-store

pluralcompany-stores

Questions about company-store

What is company-store the alternative form of?
Company-store is the alternative form of company store.

Words near company-store in the dictionary

  1. company town
  2. company towns
  3. company union
  4. company unions
  5. company-specific
  6. company-store
  7. company-stores
  8. companying
  9. companys
  10. companywide
  11. compar.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: company-store (page history and authors); company store (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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