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infrastruttura

infrastructure

noun een-frah-stroo-TOO-rah Less Common

Origin: From French infrastructure (below-structure).

Usage Note

Infrastruttura is feminine (l'infrastruttura, plural le infrastrutture). It is a loanword-calque from French used in engineering, IT, and economics. In Italian political discourse it is nearly always plural: le infrastrutture del paese (the country's infrastructure). There is no shorter everyday synonym — the word is used even in casual speech.

Examples

"Il governo investirà nelle infrastrutture stradali."

Natural Translation

The government will invest in road infrastructure.

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