Meaning of infrastructure in English

infrastructure

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/ˈɪn.frəˌstrʌk.tʃər/ us

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/ˈɪn.frəˌstrʌk.tʃɚ/

the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively:

The war has badly damaged the country's infrastructure.

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It is a long-term task to rebuild the infrastructure of a war-torn country such as Angola.
The industry was accused of having invested little in workers, plant or infrastructure.
The minister is responsible for the country's transport infrastructure.
More money is needed to maintain the city's infrastructure.
Improvements are being made to the region's decrepit infrastructure.

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infrastructure | American Dictionary

infrastructure

noun [ C ]

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/ˈɪn·frəˌstrʌk·tʃər/

the basic structure of an organization or system which is necessary for its operation, esp. public water, energy, and systems for communication and transport

(Definition of infrastructure from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

infrastructure | Business English

infrastructure

noun [ C, usually singular, or U ]

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ECONOMICS

the basic systems and services that are needed in order to support an economy, for example, transport and communication systems and electricity and water supplies:

Infrastructure and economic projects will take time to complete and may not meet the population's high expectations.

the country's/nation's/city's infrastructure

WORKPLACE

the basic systems and services that a company or industry needs in order to work effectively:

build/create/develop an infrastructure Creating an infrastructure for managing post-customer discards is evolving in many industries.

a company's financial infrastructure

the equipment, software, etc. that a computer system needs in order to operate and communicate with other computers:

broadband/information/IT infrastructure

(Definition of infrastructure from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of infrastructure

infrastructure

These projects are targeted to increase environmental infrastructure to contend with the rapid industrialization and population growth that has strained the region for decades.

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The structuring of clan society in the area would, thus, become untenable in practical terms, with its infrastructure undermined.

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However, when the benefits from infrastructure, irrigation, and water management are also included, the result somewhat changes.

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A university of 20 000 students based on this infrastructure could provide new forms of employment and access to badly needed housing to modern standards.

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He offers relevant statistics and considers the cultural infrastructure in the new urban spaces.

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There was an increase in the number of tourists and a steady growth of tourist-related infrastructure.

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Rural prefectures need more money per capita to provide the same service level as urban ones, since they have to improve their living infrastructure.

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For open 'utility computing' autonomic environments, we will soon encounter the demand for a policy infrastructure, like those in our non-electronic, physical society.

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Failures of large-scale infrastructure require extended periods of concentrated effort to repair, reducing the ability of the system to rapidly recover.

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The choice has been over-subjective and probably too heavily focused on health, disease, medicine, demography, urban infrastructure and public utilities.

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It also relied on extension infrastructure and an active farm consulting market to educate farmers.

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In many countries the existing infrastructure is overloaded and in bad repair, and services are unreliable and often expensive and infiltrated with corruption.

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In order to analyse issues connected to the state's financial infrastructure, it is useful to draw upon the concept of ' corporate welfare'.

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In other words, if these nations were to gain full independence there would already be a sort of national archaeological infrastructure at hand.

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For such a process to be a success, the right infrastructure, research design, people, partnerships, and funding need to be in place.

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Collocations with infrastructure

infrastructure

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administrative infrastructure

The measure of civil liberties, public sector competence, irregular payments, and regulatory burden are all dropped from the administrative infrastructure sub-index.

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basic infrastructure

Basic infrastructure is low in the ejidos.

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building infrastructure

The state utilised its bureaucratic capacities to undertake numerous economic tasks : collecting more taxes, building infrastructure, and undertaking production directly.

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Translations of infrastructure

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基礎建設…

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