infrastructure

Definition

An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "Near-synonyms: understructure, underpinnings, underbuilding, underframework"
• "The parasitic tyranny's infrastructure depends on secrecy in order to be effective."
• "Meronyms: (literally, large objects and portions thereof) structures, substructures, understructures, superstructures"