infrastructuren.
/ˈɪnfrəˌstrʌktjʊə/ A collective term for the subordinate parts of an undertaking; substructure, foundation; spec. the permanent installations forming a basis for military operations, as airfields, naval bases, training establishments, etc.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > subordinate agency > subordinate or supporting parts or means
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1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 May 374/2 The tunnels, bridges, culverts, and ‘infrastructure’ work generally of the Ax to Bourg-Madame line have been completed.
1950 W. S. Churchill in Hansard Commons CDLXXVI. 2145 In this Debate we have had the usual jargon about ‘the infrastructure of a supra-national authority’.
1951 European Rev. Oct. 2/1 This new term ‘infrastructure’..denotes fixed military facilities such as airfields, base installations and transport systems.
1956 D. Noakes tr. A. Hodeir Jazz 197 What I call the infrastructure is the regularly produced two- or four-beat meter (2/2 or 4/4 measure) that characterizes any jazz performance.
1957 T. Kilmartin tr. R. C. F. Aron Opium of Intellectuals iv. 133 Thirty years ago, the dominant school of thought in the Soviet Union undertook..the task of analysing the infrastructure of society.
1960 Times 9 Dec. 14/2 Part of the Nato infrastructure programme.
1971 Inside Kenya Today Mar. 15/1 A.I.D. assistance will be focused on Vihiga Division and will..upgrade the infrastructure of roads and other social services.
1971 J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 31 A very complex infrastructure of scores of vernacular languages.
Derivatives
ˌinfraˈstructural adj.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adjective] > of or relating to means > relating to infrastructure
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1963 Economist 13 Apr. 130/2 Very low interest rates..for various forms of infrastructural development.
1967 Economist 23 Sept. 1104/2 Big, infrastructural programmes—the building of dams, power stations, roads, railways, harbours and airports.
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Geology. A lower part of an orogenic belt, which is more affected by plutonic activity or metamorphism than the part above it. Contrasted with superstructure.
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1935 Meddelelser om Grønland 103 27 We come to the conclusion that the infrastructure of the Caledonian geosyncline was changed by igneous phenomena of the Caledonian.
1969 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 77 110/1 The true infrastructure..lies apparently below the present level of exposure in the Alps.
2004 D. R. Prothero & F. L. Schwab Sedimentary Geol. (ed. 2) xix. 451 This thrusting and basement uplift typically exposes metamorphic infrastructure.
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