the basic systems and services that are necessary for a country or an organization to run smoothly, for example buildings, transport and water and power supplies (國家或機構的)基礎設施,基礎建設 Oxford Collocations DictionaryInfrastructure is used before these nouns:- improvement
- investment
- distribution
- highway
- …
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French (see infra-, structure).