Infrastructure

Quick meaning: Infrastructure is a noun meaning (systems theory) An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.

Meaning

(systems theory) An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.

More Meanings

1. The facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• infrastructures

Synonyms for infrastructure

Depending on context, synonyms include understructure, underpinning, underbuilding, underframework, base.

Antonyms for infrastructure

Common opposites include superstructure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include base, infrastructural, facilities, infostructure, structure, fabric.

Related Dictionary Tools