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infrastructure

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 10.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    The parasitic tyranny's infrastructure depends on secrecy in order to be effective.
  2. noun The facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society.
    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.

Similar words

base infrastructural facilities infostructure structure fabric building construction foundation capital

Often followed by

and of for in is to that development projects

Word family

infrastructural infrastructures

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