Word Finder - infrastructure

definition

(systems theory) An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

example

The parasitic tyranny's infrastructure depends on secrecy in order to be effective.

synonyms

• underbuilding

definition

The basic facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society.

I didn't expect the critical infrastructure to disintegrate so fast.

Assess what damage you can and rebuild the critical infrastructure systems.

She slumped on the infrastructure terminal, awaiting the results of the status checks.

The company was immense in size, with little existing infrastructure.

If the smallpox and polio successes were achieved in a low-tech world, think how much more we can accomplish with vastly improved tools, infrastructure, and communication.

Agriculture as an industry requires infrastructure.

We now have the infrastructure to fulfill that desire.

Bombs and restrictions have made Iraq poor, leaving the country denuded, bereft of infrastructure and economically crippled.

We are working hard to build the infrastructure needed by such embryonic companies.

Maximizing the use of existing radio infrastructure has to be in the public interest.

The Board noted that interim findings of the Study had been considered by the Infrastructure Sub Committee at its meeting on 11 May 2005.

With this victory and the plans to build its extensive infrastructure, Wind Mobile was poised to take the Canadian market by storm.

The revenue generated from tax on sales makes up a significant proportion, 25 to 50 percent, of a state's income and is used to support its infrastructure, from schools to public transit.

The text will amend the existing Eurovignette directive on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructure in the EU.

However, UNISON maintains that NHS Scotland is too embroiled in ' partnership ' with private sector companies around key ICT Infrastructure Project.

For a company synonymous with engineering excellence, Honda recognizes the value of investment in the most up to date infrastructure available.

This shift in funding signals the transformation of the PACs from virtually free-standing production houses to becoming infrastructure accessible to all.

Spending on water and sewerage infrastructure is a major government priority.

This has enormous implications for the infrastructure in this area of continuous permafrost.

These and many other social networking sites include blogs as a part of their infrastructure.

How does the infrastructure look?

In this way, you are heavily reliant on the local infrastructure and you are at the mercy of its reliability.

For more remote areas, such an infrastructure is simply not cost effective and ultimately not possible.

As a result of the more expensive infrastructure involved, satellite phones can cost a lot more to use than regular cell phones.

The 1950's saw Red Cross evolve into a multi-tasking organization with significant enough infrastructure to sufficiently cover many disasters simultaneously.

Surrounded by keypads controlling the critical infrastructure nodes for the East Coast, the sensitive keys she needed to inventory were held within a small vault.

These were lesser keypads to other critical infrastructure functions that someone had swapped out.

She controls everything, the East Coast infrastructure, the emerops depots, the recovery effort, Elise replied.

There were infrastructure keypads and a few of the nuke, bio, electromagnetic, and chem keypads for the East Coast weapons systems.

The East Coast's infrastructure systems still reported to her micro, but she could tap into them from the Peace Command Center.

Unfortunately, the supporting infrastructure does not enable the browsers to properly authenticate the origin of these proxy settings.

There is the opportunity for significant collateral damage to any computer network and telecommunications infrastructure that does not have current countermeasures in place.

Potential loss of academic and research staff in addition to this will result in a serious detriment to the research infrastructure.

An ethanol infrastructure is already in place, thanks largely to our experience with corn ethanol.

This infrastructure can dramatically reduce the rather heady distance related component to the costs of traditional point to point leased lines.

Limassol boasts an excellent infrastructure and is a bustling international trade hub of the south eastern Mediterranean.

In any civil engineering hydraulics projects, water represents a constraint, a risk on the life cycle of the infrastructure.

In addition, David Wilson Homes has been ordered to pay for infrastructure improvements such as traffic management and flood control.

We desperately need to update Britain's crumbling transport infrastructure.

Recent research at Imperial College London has focused on the potential for a hydrogen refueling infrastructure serving London.

For relatively small values of g a relative low amount of competencies is necessary to build up technological infrastructure.

Property legal services We deal with anything that relates to Orange's physical infrastructure.

Without premises, data center or telecommunications infrastructure for an extended period of time, most businesses would struggle to survive.

I hope that the Assembly will take a strategic decision to support the long-term investment required in rail infrastructure.

To deploy the network infrastructure, the GLA turned to Computacenter.

Funding of railroad infrastructure has been substantially increased and the London congestion charge has proved successful.

This will not help the financing of early infrastructure investment that might be essential or highly desirable.

Streams uses Oracle's log Miner infrastructure to read redo logs.

The Scottish Arts Council has also invested millions through the National Lottery to develop the festivals infrastructure.

This configuration is often referred to as " ad-hoc networking mode " with the sharing computer operating in " infrastructure mode " .