infrastructure

English

Etymology

[1887] Borrowed from French infrastructure, equivalent to infra- +‎ structure.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

infrastructure (countable and uncountable, plural infrastructures)

1. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

   The infrastructure of parasitic tyranny 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, John Oliver, “Infrastructure”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 4, written by Tim Carvell; Josh Gondelman; Dan Gurewitch; Jeff Maurer; Ben Silva; Will Tracy; Jill Twiss; Seena Vali; Julie Weiner, 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.

Synonyms

• underbuilding

Hyponyms

• Common Language Infrastructure

Translations

underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system

• Armenian: ենթակառույց (hy) (entʿakaṙuycʿ)
• Catalan: infraestructura 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)
• Hindi: अवसंरचना f (avasaṁracanā)
• 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)
• Persian: زیرساخت‎ (fa) (zirsāxt)
• Portuguese: infraestructura f
• Romanian: infrastructură (ro) f
• Russian: инфраструкту́ра (ru) f (infrastruktúra)
• Sanskrit: अवसंरचना f (avasaṁracanā)
• Spanish: infraestructura f
• Swedish: infrastruktur (sv) c
• Tagalog: imprastruktura, imprastraktura suludkayarian

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

• Armenian: ենթակառույց (hy) (entʿakaṙuycʿ), ենթակառուցվածք (hy) (entʿakaṙucʿvackʿ)
• Catalan: infraestructura 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)
• 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) (zirsāxt)
• Portuguese: infraestructura 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)
• Vietnamese: cơ sở hạ tầng (vi)

References

• infrastructure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From infra- +‎ structure.

Noun

infrastructure f (plural infrastructures)

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

Further reading

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