infrastructures
- 1Plural of infrastructure.
Neighboring countries compared their energy and communication infrastructures at the summit.
Decades of underinvestment left the region's aging infrastructures vulnerable to flooding.
Note
A plural that exists because the singular can also be counted. Often infrastructure works as a mass noun (the region needs more infrastructure), but when separate systems are set side by side, each becomes one of several: energy and transport infrastructures, the infrastructures of two cities. When a sentence means the whole underlying base taken together, the singular usually reads more naturally.
infrastructures is a form of infrastructure
infrastructure, noun: The facilities, services, and installations a community or society needs in order to function. Full entry
- Forms
- infrastructureinfrastructures plural
- Spelling
- infrastructure → infrastructures: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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