infrastructure

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French infrastructure, equivalent to infra- +‎ structure.

Pronunciation

Noun

infrastructure (countable and uncountable, plural infrastructures)

  2. (systems theory) An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.
    Antonym: superstructure
    Hyponym: Common Language Infrastructure
    Near-synonyms: understructure, underpinnings, underbuilding, underframework
    The parasitic tyranny's infrastructure depends on secrecy in order to be effective.
  4. The facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society.
    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.
    • 2015, Tim Carvell , “Infrastructure”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 4, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
      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.
    • 2021 December 2, Liz Stark, “EPA urges states to target billions in new water infrastructure funding to historically underserved communities”, in CNN‎:
      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.

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French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

From infra- +‎ structure.

Pronunciation

Noun

infrastructure f (plural infrastructures)

  1. infrastructure (an underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system)

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