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infrastructural

infrastructural

2 6.3
Relating to basic systems like roads, water, or power that support a place
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪnfrəˈstrʌkʧərəl/
: infrastructural
  • Many cities are facing challenges due to outdated infrastructural systems.
  • infrastructural improvements
  • infrastructural development
  • infrastructural projects

Even more than video 'cause I think video's a bigger mental and infrastructural jump for many.

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Examples

  • The funds allocated to infrastructural development, for example, support construction critical to security needs.

    Academic text (1991)

  • In addition, he made significant infrastructural improvements to the outlying area.

    Academic text (2008)

  • So we started off very early on with a very basic, what I would call infrastructural message.

  • Even more than video 'cause I think video's a bigger mental and infrastructural jump for many.

    GaryVee

  • At the same time, the state funded infrastructural projects that further increased its power.

    Academic text (1995)

  • What are the political and infrastructural targets that need attention?

    Academic text (2007)

  • Yet there was still little or no infrastructural development in the country, almost nothing for the poor or average citizen.

    Harvard University

  • The second way to move the health-care system forward involves infrastructural reform.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Local governments are also weak, unable to address urgent infrastructural and regulatory challenges.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The Trexx Metro system has been described as the greatest infrastructural revolution since the railroads.

    Metropia (2009)

Surface Forms

infrastructural positive

Morphology

infrastructural = infrastructure (semi-transparent) = infra + structure + al

The adjective is transparently formed from 'infrastructure' plus '-al', but the noun itself is a somewhat specialized and partly lexically fixed term.

Etymology

Infrastructural comes from infra- meaning 'below' and structure meaning 'building' or 'framework'. So it describes the basic systems that lie 'under' and support a place or organization, like roads, pipes and power lines.