infrastructure

Basic roads, buildings, and supplies of water and power that a place needs to work properly.

• The city needs better infrastructure.
• Floods damaged roads and other essential infrastructure.
• The government is investing in rural infrastructure.

Common phrases: public infrastructure, transport infrastructure, infrastructure investment, essential infrastructure

The basic systems, services, or ideas that help an organization or project work.

• Our digital infrastructure needs updating.
• The project lacks the infrastructure needed for growth.
• They built a shared infrastructure for online services.

How to use it: infrastructure for something (We need reliable infrastructure for storing customer data.)

Similar words: framework, support system

Common phrases: digital infrastructure, technical infrastructure, infrastructure for something