coal town

collocation in English

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coal
noun[C or U]
uk
/kəʊl/us
/koʊl/
a hard, black substance that is dug from the earth in pieces, and can be burned to produce heat or power, or a single piece ...
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town
noun
uk
/taʊn/us
/taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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(Definition ofcoalandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One is a steel town, another acoaltown, and one is a town made up of a number of very small industries.
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One would not even notice the company as one drives round that great steel andcoaltown; it is tucked away behind the high street opposite the town hall.
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Woodland started as acoaltownsometime around the beginning of the 20th century.
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In other words, it is acoaltownand your pictures must tell it.
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Acoaltownis a type of company town or mining community.
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It is described as being a coal camp orcoaltown.
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Echols was established as acoaltownin 1874 and named for the mine owner.
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Calumet was a typical patch town, another name for acoaltown, built by a single company to house coal miners as cheaply as possible.
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Structural adjustment measures have been implemented with the aim of transforming the city from being acoaltowntowards strengthening the tourist sector.
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As such, coal scrip could only be used at the specific locality orcoaltownof the company named.
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At least 60 coal towns, known as coal patches, were constructed in the field.
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Below is partial listing of known coal towns.
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Many of these encampments were set up as coal towns, and when their mines closed, the towns vanished.
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Women played an important, though quiet, role in support of the union movement in coal towns during the troubled 1920s and 1930s.
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Opportunities for women were strictly limited, until textile companies after 1900 started opening small factories in the larger coal towns to employ women.
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We see the power of the coal companies, as they own and operate the coal towns and control the lives of its citizens.
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