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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AstraZeneca and Merck recently axed plans for sizeable infrastructure investment in Britain, with the US pharma group citing UK drugs prices as a major reason for its U-turn.
From Barron's
Big tech companies are streaming into debt markets to fund gigantic investments in data centers, chips and other AI-related infrastructure.
Artists, mass media, infrastructure — the thriving triad was extraordinary to watch erupt.
From Los Angeles Times
A vaccination programme began in mid-September -- a challenge in a country four times the size of France and where transportation infrastructure is limited and often in poor condition.
From Barron's
China is Laos' dominant economic partner through infrastructure investments including a railway linking Vientiane and Kunming, in Yunnan province, and a wider economic corridor.
From Barron's
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