infrastructure

Definitions

1. An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.
   countable, uncountable
2. The facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society.
   countable, uncountable
3. base (forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life)

Equivalents

38 more languages

العربيةالبناء التحتيبنية تحتية

Bosanskiinfrastrukturaинфраструктура

Catalàinfraestructura

Češtinainfrastruktura

Danskinfrastruktur

Ελληνικάυποδομή

Eestiinfrastruktuurtaristu

Euskaraazpiegitura

فارسیزیرساخت

Suomiinfrastruktuuri

Gaeilgebonneagarinfreastruchtúr

हिन्दीअवसंरचना

Hrvatskiinfrastrukturaинфраструктура

Magyarinfrastruktúra

Հայերենենթակառույցենթակառուցվածք

Bahasa Indonesiainfrastrukturprasarana

Íslenskainnviðir

Italianoinfrastruttura

日本語インフラインフラストラクチャインフラストラクチャー

ქართულიინფრასტრუქტურა

Қазақ тіліинфрақұрылым

한국어기간시설기반시설인프라인프라스트럭처+ 1 more

Lietuviųinfrastruktūra

Македонскиинфраструктура

Bahasa Melayuinfrastruktur

Nederlandsinfrastructuur

Polskiinfrastruktura

Portuguêsinfraestrutura

Românăinfrastructură

Русскийинфраструктура

Slovenčinainfraštruktúra

Српскиinfrastrukturaинфраструктура

Svenskainfrastruktur

ไทยโครงสร้างพื้นฐาน

Tagalogimprastrakturaimprastruktura

Türkçealtyapıenfrastrüktür

Українськаінфраструктураінфраструктурний

Tiếng Việtcơ sở hạ tầnghạ tầng cơ sở

Examples

“Near-synonyms: understructure, underpinnings, underbuilding, underframework”

“The parasitic tyranny's infrastructure depends on secrecy in order⟳ to be effective.”

“Meronyms: (literally, large objects and portions thereof) structures, substructures, understructures, superstructures”

“If we don't spend⟳ money to maintain⟳ our infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, water mains, sewers, and electrical grids, then it will begin⟳ to fail⟳ us.”

“Infrastructure: It's our roads, bridges, dams, levees, airports, power grids... basically, anything that can be destroyed in an action movie... The problem is, though, when our infrastructure is not being destroyed by robots and/or saved by Bruce Willis we tend⟳ to find⟳ it a bit boring.”

“About $7.4 billion will be allocated to states, tribes and territories for 2022 – the first-year allotment of nearly $44 billion in total SRF funding over the next five years from the infrastructure law, according to an EPA fact sheet.”

CEFR level