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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At the top of many people's minds is Elon Musk's xAI, which has gone the farthest and at dizzying speed in building AI infrastructure in Memphis and neighbouring Mississippi.
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"If major investors, particularly in infrastructure, technology, real estate, etcetera, no longer believe that their investments are safe this would have a much more significant impact and the diversification plans of the UAE," he said.
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Apart from climate concerns, strikes on energy infrastructure, oil tankers and military targets pollute the surrounding air and water and spread highly toxic chemicals far and wide, experts say.
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Notably, more than half of those names are hyperscalers that have ramped up spending to build out AI infrastructure in recent years.
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Notably, more than half of those names are hyperscalers that have ramped up spending to build out AI infrastructure in recent years.
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