The [[word]] '''infrastructure'''according to ''Etymology Online'' has been used in [[English]] since at least 1927 and meant: The installations that form the basis for any operation or [[system]]. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] traces the word's [[origins]] to earlier usage, originally applied in a military sense. | The [[word]] '''infrastructure'''according to ''Etymology Online'' has been used in [[English]] since at least 1927 and meant: The installations that form the basis for any operation or [[system]]. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] traces the word's [[origins]] to earlier usage, originally applied in a military sense. |