infrastructure

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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Noun

infrastructure (countable and uncountable, plural infrastructures)

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

   Synonyms: underbuilding, underframework

   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 [et al.], “Infrastructure”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 4, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

     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.

Derived terms

• e-infrastructure
• non-infrastructure, noninfrastructure

Translations

underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system

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

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

• Czech: infrastruktura f
• Dutch: infrastructuur (nl) f
• Estonian: taristu, infrastruktuur
• Finnish: infrastruktuuri (fi)
• French: infrastructure (fr) f
• Galician: infraestrutura f
• German: Infrastruktur (de) f
• Greek: υποδομή (el) f (ypodomí)
• Hebrew: תַּשְׁתִּית f (tashtít)
• Hindi: अवसंरचना f (avsanracnā)
• Hungarian: infrastruktúra (hu)
• Indonesian: infrastruktur (id)
• 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: 기반시설(基盤施設) (ko) (gibansiseol), 기간시설(基幹施設) (gigansiseol), 인프라스트럭처 (inpeuraseuteureokcheo), 인프라 (inpeura)
• Latin: infrastuctura f
• Maori: tūāhanga
• Persian: زیرساخت (fa) (zirsâxt)
• Polish: infrastruktura (pl) f
• Portuguese: infraestrutura (pt) 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 (th) (kroong-sâang-pʉ́ʉn-tǎan)
• Turkish: altyapı (tr), enfrastrüktür (tr)
• Ukrainian: інфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)

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

• Albanian: infrastrukturë f
• Arabic: بِنْيَة تَحْتِيَّة f (binya taḥtiyya)
• Armenian: ենթակառույց (hy) (entʻakaṙuycʻ), ենթակառուցվածք (hy) (entʻakaṙucʻvackʻ)
• Azerbaijani: infrastruktur
• Basque: azpiegitura
• Belarusian: інфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Bulgarian: инфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Catalan: infraestructura (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: infrastruktura f
• Danish: infrastruktur c
• Dutch: infrastructuur (nl) c
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: taristu, infrastruktuur
• Finnish: infrastruktuuri (fi)
• Galician: infraestrutura f
• Georgian: ინფრასტრუქტურა (inprasṭrukṭura)
• German: Infrastruktur (de) f
• Greek: υποδομή (el) f (ypodomí)
• Hebrew: תַּשְׁתִּית f (tashtít)
• Hungarian: infrastruktúra (hu)
• 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)
• Kazakh: инфрақұрылым (infraqūrylym)
• Korean: 기반시설(基盤施設) (ko) (gibansiseol), 인프라스트럭처 (inpeuraseuteureokcheo), 인프라 (inpeura)
• Kyrgyz: инфраструктура (infrastruktura)
• Latvian: infrastruktūra f
• Lithuanian: infrastruktūra f
• Macedonian: инфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Malay: infrastruktur
• Maori: tūāhanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: infrastruktur m

• Persian: زیرساخت (fa) (zirsâxt)
• Polish: infrastruktura (pl) f
• Portuguese: infraestrutura (pt) f
• Romanian: infrastructură (ro) f
• Russian: инфраструкту́ра (ru) f (infrastruktúra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: инфраструкту́ра f

  Roman: infrastruktúra (sh) f

• Slovak: infraštruktúra f
• Slovene: infrastruktura f
• Spanish: infraestructura f
• Swedish: infrastruktur (sv) c
• Tagalog: imprastruktura, imprastraktura, suludkayarian
• Tajik: инфраструктура (infrastruktura)
• Tamil: (kattumaana vasadhigal)
• Telugu: అవస్థాపన సౌకర్యాలు (avasthāpana saukaryālu)
• Turkish: altyapı (tr), enfrastrüktür (tr)
• Turkmen: infrastruktura
• Ukrainian: інфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Uzbek: infratuzilma (uz), infrastruktura (uz)
• Vietnamese: cơ sở hạ tầng (vi)

Further reading

• infrastructure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.