Hello! I thought the word infrastructure could be a good word to look up. This word can mean something a little different depending on what category or subject you are talking about. I chose the Cambridge dictionary this time. I like this dictionary! I have a big brown one that I received from thriftbooks.com. the entries are a little more old school and not so modern. I have found that some dictionaries will have different meanings for the same word. I did NOT realize this and thought ‘how could this be??’. I complained to one of the online dictionaries one time and told them what a regular dictionary had for that same definition. I felt that the meaning was sort of lost in the “new” meaning! They replied back but they blame shifted this issue to another department. figures. sometimes even the dictionary will fail us. I look back and I have humor about it.
INFRASTRUCTURE: the part of speech is a noun
The basic systems and services such as transportation and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively.
The Cambridge dictionary lists this word’s meaning in the subject of economics as:
The basic systems and services that are needed in order to support an economy, for example, transport and communication systems and electricity and water supplies.
relating to the workplace it says
the basic systems and services that a company or industry needs in order to work effectively
and for IT or information technology it means
The equipment, software, etc. that a computer system needs in order to operate and communicate with other computers.
some synonyms of this word are: (synonyms are words that mean the same thing, kind of)
Framework, groundwork, configuration, and foundation
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