infrastructure

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌk(t)ʃɚ/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

Noun

infrastructure (countable and uncountable, plural infrastructures)

1. (systems theory) An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system. [from 1887]

   Synonym: underbuilding

   Hyponym: Common Language Infrastructure

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

2. The basic facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society.
   • 2015, Tim Carvell; Josh Gondelman; Dan Gurewitch; Jeff Maurer; Ben Silva; Will Tracy; Jill Twiss; Seena Vali; Julie Weiner, “Infrastructure”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 4, HBO, Warner Bros. Television:

     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.

Translations

underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system

• Armenian: ենթակառույց (hy) (entʿakaṙuycʿ)
• Belarusian: інфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Bulgarian: инфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Catalan: infraestructura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基礎設施 (zh), 基础设施 (zh) (jīchǔ shèshī)

• Czech: infrastruktura f
• Estonian: taristu, infrastruktuur
• Finnish: infrastruktuuri (fi)
• French: infrastructure (fr) f
• German: Infrastruktur (de) f
• Greek: υποδομή (el) f (ypodomí)
• Hebrew: תַּשְׁתִּית‎ f (tashtít)
• Hindi: अवसंरचना f (avsãracnā)
• Hungarian: infrastruktúra (hu)
• Irish: infreastruchtúr m, bonneagar m
• Italian: infrastruttura (it) f

• Japanese: インフラストラクチャ (infurasutorakucha), インフラ (ja) (infura)
• Korean: 기반 시설 (giban siseol) (基盤施設), 기간 시설 (gigan siseol) (基幹施設), 인프라스트럭처 (inpeuraseuteureokcheo), 인프라 (inpeura)
• Latin: infrastuctura f
• Persian: زیرساخت‎ (fa) (zirsâxt)
• Polish: infrastruktura (pl) f
• Portuguese: infraestrutura f
• Romanian: infrastructură (ro) f
• Russian: инфраструкту́ра (ru) f (infrastruktúra)
• Sanskrit: अवसंरचना f (avasaṃracanā)
• Spanish: infraestructura f
• Swedish: infrastruktur (sv) c
• Tagalog: imprastruktura, imprastraktura, suludkayarian
• Thai: โครงสร้างพื้นฐาน
• Turkish: altyapı (tr), enfrastrüktür (tr)
• Ukrainian: інфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)

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

• Armenian: ենթակառույց (hy) (entʿakaṙuycʿ), ենթակառուցվածք (hy) (entʿakaṙucʿvackʿ)
• Bulgarian: инфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Catalan: infraestructura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基礎設施 (zh), 基础设施 (zh) (jīchǔ shèshī), 基建 (zh) (jījiàn)

• Czech: infrastruktura f
• Estonian: taristu, infrastruktuur
• Finnish: infrastruktuuri (fi)
• German: Infrastruktur (de) f
• Greek: υποδομή (el) f (ypodomí)
• Hebrew: תַּשְׁתִּית‎ f (tashtít)
• Indonesian: infrastruktur (id), prasarana (id)
• Italian: infrastruttura (it) f
• Japanese: インフラストラクチャ (infurasutorakucha), インフラ (ja) (infura)

• Korean: 인프라 (inpeura)
• Persian: زیرساخت‎ (fa) (zirsâxt)
• Portuguese: infraestrutura f
• Romanian: infrastructură (ro)
• Russian: инфраструкту́ра (ru) f (infrastruktúra)
• Spanish: infraestructura f
• Swedish: infrastruktur (sv) c
• Tagalog: imprastruktura, imprastraktura, suludkayarian
• Tamil: (kattumaana vasadhigal)
• Telugu: అవస్థాపన సౌకర్యాలు (avasthāpana saukaryālu)
• Turkish: altyapı (tr), enfrastrüktür (tr)
• Vietnamese: cơ sở hạ tầng (vi)

Further reading

• infrastructure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From infra- +‎ structure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fʁas.tʁyk.tyʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

infrastructure f (plural infrastructures)

1. infrastructure (an underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system) [from 1875]

Further reading

• “infrastructure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).