Word of the Week (7)

word: infrastructure

definition:
noun
1. the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.

2. the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools.

3. the military installations of a country.


where: WSJ
"It is proposing increased tax rebates for textiles and labor-intensive products, expanded bank lending to small businesses, reduced taxes on housing transactions xand speeded-up infrastructure construction."

sentence:
"The current ideologies of greed and power that make up our government's infrastructure is bring us into a recession."