Infrastructure – Basic facilities of society (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies)
(Pronounced in-fruh-struk-chur)
(Pronounced san-fwah)
To remember the definition of the word infrastructure, use the following mnemonic:
The infrared camera revealed the structure (infrastructure) of the city. Now you could see the buildings, roads and power supplies.
Examples of infrastructure in a sentence
Too few tax dollars go toward building infrastructure, such as power plants, roads and bridges.
The president of the small country insisted that his country does not have the infrastructure to absorb a large amount of refugees.
I didn't expect the critical infrastructure to disintegrate so fast.
