economic infrastructure
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- noun
- /ˌiːkəˈnɑːmɪk ˈɪnfrəˌstrʌktʃər/
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infraestructura económica
- A reliable economic infrastructure, like good roads and public transport, is essential for local businesses to thrive.
- social and economic infrastructure
- economic infrastructure has been destroyed
- political and economic infrastructure
Examples
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Despite the dramatic economic influx to the local Anglo economy, the economic infrastructure of the Lemhi Reservation remained severely underdeveloped.
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Like much of the southern economy as a whole, the postwar years were ones of rebuilding the orchards and the economic infrastructure of the South.
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In the early 1990s, the civil war caused huge loss of life, mass population movements, the destruction of social and economic infrastructure, and environmental damage.
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Both the United Nations and the United States continue to partner with Liberia as it rebuilds social and economic infrastructure destroyed by years of conflict.
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The exact ramifications of the Gulf Crisis on Jordan's economic infrastructure are still unknown.
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The Gauteng Provincial Government, via its economic arm, has dedicated R3.5 billion to eleven economic infrastructure programs.
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But the environmental problems created by China's recent economic boom now threaten the country's fragile social, political, and economic infrastructure.
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Along with a highly educated workforce, a prerequisite for a successful knowledge-based economy is a strong economic infrastructure, including particularly a well-developed information infrastructure.
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The recent conflict has wrought near-apocalyptic results upon the economic infrastructure of what had been, until January 1991, a rather highly urbanized and mechanized society.
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There is an urgent need for this knowledge as small towns in the United States lose socio-economic infrastructure resulting from restructuring, demographic change, and the centralization of services.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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Basic systems like roads, power, and buildings that let a society or business work
Antonyms
How Developed
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'economic' (relating to the economy) modifies 'infrastructure' (essential structures), so a learner who knows both words can infer this refers to the facilities and systems supporting an economy. This adjective+noun pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common rather than idiomatic, making it easily understandable at B1.
Etymology
Economic infrastructure creates a simple image: infrastructure is like a country's 'backbone' — the roads, ports, power lines and pipes that let people, goods and services move. Because these basic systems support all business and daily life, 'economic infrastructure' now means the physical things and systems a country needs to work and grow.