Infrastructure

/ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (systems theory) An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.
2. 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.

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.

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• infrastructures

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