infrastructure

[ˈɪnfrəstrʌktʃər]

Definition:
1. The basic structure or features of a system or organization.
2. The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area.

Use 'infrastructure' in a sentence:

1. Plans for the private network, called Govnet, hinge on whether a reliable network infrastructure can be built at an affordable price, officials said.
2. Asian economies have introduced new measures to promote the digital economy, advancing digital infrastructure construction and international digital cooperation, among other initiatives.
3. A Study on the Public Investment on China's Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Growth.
4. Using Private Capital to Promoting Construction of Environmental Protection Infrastructure.
5. Another issue affecting real estate in the coming year will be America's falling infrastructure.
6. Design and Scheme of Public Key Infrastructure System.
7. By the middle of the century, a modern, high-quality and comprehensive national transport network will be built in an all-round way, with a world-class transport infrastructure system.
8. Then it evaluates the health of infrastructure, such as the roads that mail carriers drive on.
9. The government will guarantee cyberspace sovereignty and national security, protect information infrastructure and act against cyber terror and crimes, according to the strategy released by the Cyberspace Administration of China ( CAC).
10. The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive.
11. The infrastructure at the institute's P4 biosafety laboratory are the same as other P4 labs in operation.
12. With China's strengths in infrastructure and manufacturing and New Zealand's advantages in agricultural science and technology, IT and clean energy, the two countries have much to offer to each other and may draw upon each other's strong points.
13. Such activities had a major effect on the local area, in particular with the construction of infrastructure such as roads, which improved access to remote areas.
14. The key to seamlessness rests in infrastructure and information sharing.
15. The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real estate market but also our ability to remain globally competitive.
16. We will look at how to implement an automated infrastructure for better deployment management.
17. Although South Africa has many of the attributes of the First World – some good infrastructure, millions of rich people – it is still not part of that world.
18. The sensible place to build new houses, factories and offices is where people are, in cities and towns where infrastructure is in place.
19. Open Digital Information Service Infrastructure: Concept, Structure and Technology.
20. Responsible to the company's infrastructure management, construction and maintenance.
21. If we spent more on education, health and infrastructure, we would strengthen our economy, now and in the future.
22. Along with programs that provide direct support, SK Group has also been working to build the infrastructure necessary to aid social enterprises' operations.
23. The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business District, and the surface infrastructure was built at the same time as the new airport.
24. The housing project is hard to shove for attention among multibillion-pound infrastructure projects, so it is inevitable that the attention is focused elsewhere.
25. Israel would continue its efforts to destroy the terrorist infrastructure, arrest those behind terrorist activities and harshly punish those who perpetrate these murderous activities.
26. The project finances small scale irrigation systems, feeder roads and other types of community infrastructure.
27. Simple improvements to infrastructure can reduce the spread of disease.
28. The increasingly fast urbanization process requires more and more infrastructures.
29. China should be at the global forefront in terms of the quality, intelligence and green levels of transport infrastructure.
30. Most of that money needs to go towards improving agricultural infrastructure.
31. However, public infrastructure did not keep pace with urban sprawl, causing massive congestion problems which now make commuting times far higher.
32. The infrastructure, from hotels to transport, is old and decrepit.
33. Retailers and banks stand to benefit from the lower fraud levels of chip-and-PIN cards but have been reluctan for years to invest in the new infrastructure needed for the technology, especially if consumers don ＇ t have access to it.
34. A study from the University of California at Davis suggested that replacing petrol-powered private cars worldwide with electric, self-driving and shared systems could reduce carbon emissions from transportation 80% and cut the cost of transportation infrastructure and operations 40% by 2050 ．
35. Simple improvements to infrastructure can reduce the spread of disease ．
36. Beijing's Urban Infrastructure Investment and Development of Economy.
37. When the government talks about infrastructure contributing to the economy, the focus is usually on roads, railways, broadband, and energy.
38. Living in slums means they don't have infrastructure to take the garbage away.
39. We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.
40. In this regard, efforts will be made to optimize modern rural infrastructures including high-yield farmland and water conservancy and agricultural mechanization projects, raise agricultural technological innovation capability and speed up promotion and application, and enhance the capability of grain production and disaster prevention and mitigation.
41. If that income were better taxed, it might provide the revenue for better infrastructure.
42. The decree was approved by the lower house of the Italian parliament in April, but major infrastructure work will be needed to make it possible to redirect cruise ships to Marghera port.
43. Dams, aqueducts and other kinds of infrastructure will still have to be built, particularly in developing countries where basic human needs have not been met.
44. Another issue affecting real estate in the coming year will be America's failing infrastructure.
45. In a 2011 USPS case study, the agency emphasized its massive infrastructure as a "unique federal asset" to be called upon in a disaster or terrorist attack.
46. Owing to the level of the damage to factories and infrastructure, it will be weeks or even months before the country's supply chain returns to normal.
47. What he saw immediately was that the infrastructure was completely outdated—they were paying three full-time admin staff just for data-entry.
48. Public transportation termini and depots are important infrastructures for a city.
49. Governments of rapidly developing countries incorporate waste minimisation thinking into the transport infrastructure and storage facilities currently being planned, engineered and built.
50. The South-to-North Water Diversion Project is important strategic infrastructure.
51. The revenue from this tax, which would probably be hundreds of billions of dollars per year, could be handed out to citizens as a dividend or used to fund green infrastructure projects.
52. However, this approach does not include investment in new infrastructure, nor does it guarantee better regional cohesion.
53. Natural disasters can wreck a community's infrastructure, disrupting systems for months or years.
54. Although South Africa has many of the attributes of the first world — some good infrastructure, millions of rich people — it is still not part of that world.
55. Years of civil war have wrecked the country's infrastructure and destroyed its social fabric.
56. GM crops can and almost certainly will be part of that suite of tools, but so will traditional plant breeding, improved soil and crop management — and perhaps most important of all, better storage and transport infrastructure, especially in the developing world.
57. Japanese proprietors are erecting a complex infrastructure of political influence throughout America.
58. A proposed joint project would develop a prototype or demonstration model for the "21st-century national information infrastructure".