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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They also hope to attract funding and investments to rehabilitate Syria's dilapidated infrastructure.
From Barron's
Securities filings show that Wedbush plans to launch at least one more ETF with Ives’s name on it: a fund of companies that build infrastructure, like data centers, to support AI tech.
From Barron's
Beyond transportation and infrastructure, the team also demonstrated that rafts made from superhydrophobic tubes could capture energy from moving water.
From Science Daily
The company has said it is still capacity-constrained, meaning it doesn’t have enough resources and infrastructure at the moment to do everything it wants to do with AI—hence the data-center build-out.
“We should strive to build a science infrastructure or a scientific foundation for this country that is responsive to the needs of the the U.S. population.”
From Salon
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