- the basic systems and services that are necessary for a country or an organization to run smoothly, for example buildings, transport and water and power suppliesOxford Collocations DictionaryInfrastructure is used before these nouns:
- improvement
- investment
- distribution
- highway
- …
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French (see infra-, structure).Definitions on the go
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