infrastructure — English Dictionary

Noun

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

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   understructureunderpinningunderbuildingunderframework

   Antonyms

   superstructure

   Examples

   Near-synonyms: understructure, underpinnings, underbuilding, underframework

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

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

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   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.

   More examples (2)

   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.

Noun

1. the basic structure or features of a system or organization

   Synonyms

   substructure

   Broader terms

   structure

2. the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area

   Synonyms

   base

   Broader terms

   storestockfund

   Examples

   the industrial base of Japan