infrastructure
Americannoun
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the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools.
Investments in infrastructure helped the U.S. economy recover from the Great Depression.
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the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
Over the years, as the incidence of cancer increased, the infrastructure of the hospital was developed to accommodate the new cases.
- Synonyms:
- support, foundation, basis
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the military installations of a country.
We could do much with just a fraction of the billions spent to maintain our robust overseas infrastructure.
noun
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the basic structure of an organization, system, etc
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the stock of fixed capital equipment in a country, including factories, roads, schools, etc, considered as a determinant of economic growth
Other Word Forms
- infrastructural adjective
Etymology
Origin of infrastructure
Example Sentences
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Hodgson said human infrastructure in the South West had not been designed for this level of sustained rainfall.
From BBC
Oil companies first "have to see what's the state of the infrastructure" in Venezuela, Pinon added.
From Barron's
“There needs to be commitment, not only on spending more, but it even needs to be a commitment on keeping the current infrastructure up,” de Pagter said.
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard of V22 Research wrote in a note Saturday that the initial operation appears designed to weaken Iran’s ability to coordinate retaliation by targeting leadership and missile infrastructure.
From Barron's
It is still too early to tell what kind of damage, if any, has been done to export infrastructure on Kharg Island, they said, but about 90% of Iran’s exports go through it.
From MarketWatch
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