infrastructure

CEFRB2

/ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Basic systems and structures needed for a country or organization to work.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • The infrastructure of an application is directly related to its overall performance.

  • This blog covers topics that centre on information infrastructure.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹakt͡ʃə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.

More examples

In context

  • The parasitic tyranny's infrastructure depends on secrecy in order to be effective.

  • Meronyms: (literally, large objects and portions thereof) structures, substructures, understructures, superstructures

  • Near-synonyms: understructure, underpinnings, underbuilding, underframework

Synonyms

Antonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The growing city needs to improve its roads, bridges, and other blank quickly.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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