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  • noun Alternative form of company store.

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Examples

  • In the meantime, Jamba is reducing planned company-store openings to 45 to 55 this year, compared with 99 in 2007.

    Jamba Rebound Faces Hurdles 2008

  • The back of his shirt was peppered with sweat by midday, and while the blacks ate their sandwiches of company-store balogna and potted meat in a grove of gum trees, he tethered his horse under a solitary live oak in the middle of a pepper field and sat in a folding chair a black man hand-carried to him for that purpose.

    Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

  • The back of his shirt was peppered with sweat by midday, and while the blacks ate their sandwiches of company-store balogna and potted meat in a grove of gum trees, he tethered his horse under a solitary live oak in the middle of a pepper field and sat in a folding chair a black man hand-carried to him for that purpose.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • The back of his shirt was peppered with sweat by midday, and while the blacks ate their sandwiches of company-store balogna and potted meat in a grove of gum trees, he tethered his horse under a solitary live oak in the middle of a pepper field and sat in a folding chair a black man hand-carried to him for that purpose.

    Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

  • The back of his shirt was peppered with sweat by midday, and while the blacks ate their sandwiches of company-store balogna and potted meat in a grove of gum trees, he tethered his horse under a solitary live oak in the middle of a pepper field and sat in a folding chair a black man hand-carried to him for that purpose.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • The back of his shirt was peppered with sweat by midday, and while the blacks ate their sandwiches of company-store balogna and potted meat in a grove of gum trees, he tethered his horse under a solitary live oak in the middle of a pepper field and sat in a folding chair a black man hand-carried to him for that purpose.

    Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

  • The back of his shirt was peppered with sweat by midday, and while the blacks ate their sandwiches of company-store balogna and potted meat in a grove of gum trees, he tethered his horse under a solitary live oak in the middle of a pepper field and sat in a folding chair a black man hand-carried to him for that purpose.

    Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

  • Hal did not look back, but turned into the company-store.

    King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

  • For that matter, you could not even buy a post-office money-order, to send funds back to the old country; the post-office clerk, who was at the same time a clerk in the company-store, would sell you some sort of a store-draft.

    King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Coming up in the cage one evening, Hal made some remark to the Croatian mule-driver, Madvik, about the high price of company-store merchandise, and was surprised to get a sharp kick on the ankle.

    King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

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