infrastructure
noun
the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools.
infrastructures
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pluralof infrastructure.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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By contrast stablecoins move through proprietary, fragmented infrastructures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
National infrastructures in many cases are not able to sustain mass-market electrification.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
Even if these infrastructures are not directly hit—Tehran is a city of 14 million people in a densely populated urban environment.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2026
"When core infrastructures like cloud, AI or platforms are controlled from outside Europe, so are the rules, the data and ultimately the leverage."
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
Some information technology experts warned that computers would not be able to distinguish the correct meaning of 00, resulting in widespread failure of vital infrastructures.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
