Other forms: infrastructures
Infrastructure is all the roads, pipes, wires, and rails a city runs on. Invest in infrastructure, ageing infrastructure, critical infrastructure.
Its defining political problem is that building it wins attention and maintaining it does not, so the bill arrives decades later. Critical infrastructure is the legal term for systems whose failure would be catastrophic. The Latin infra means below.
1nouninfrastructureThe roads, pipes, wires and rails a place runs on.
“The earthquake damaged the city's infrastructure, leaving thousands without water or power.”
infrastructure is a system.
French infrastructure is infra-, below, plus structure. It first named the groundwork of a railway.
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English, today
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French infrastructure, equivalent to infra- + structure.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA