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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.  

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The word was imported from French, where it means subgrade, the native [[material]] underneath a constructed pavement or railway. The word is a combination of the [[Latin]] prefix "infra", [[meaning]] "below" and "[[structure]]". The military sense of the word was probably first used in France, and imported into English around the time of the [[First World War]]. The military use of the term achieved currency in the United States after the formation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO NATO] in the 1940s, and was then adopted by urban planners in its modern civilian sense by 1970. [6], .

The word was imported from French, where it means subgrade, the native [[material]] underneath a constructed pavement or railway. The word is a combination of the [[Latin]] prefix "infra", [[meaning]] "below" and "[[structure]]". The military sense of the word was probably first used in France, and imported into English around the time of the [[First World War]]. The military use of the term achieved currency in the United States after the formation of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO NATO] in the 1940s, and was then adopted by urban planners in its modern civilian sense by 1970. [6], .

The term came to prominence in the United States in the 1980s following the publication of ''America in Ruins''ISBN 0822305542 (Choate and Walter, 1981)[1] , which initiated a [[public]]-policy [[discussion]] of the nation’s "infrastructure [[crisis]]", purported to be caused by decades of inadequate investment and poor maintenance of public works.

The term came to prominence in the United States in the 1980s following the publication of ''America in Ruins''ISBN 0822305542 (Choate and Walter, 1981)[1] , which initiated a [[public]]-policy [[discussion]] of the nation’s "infrastructure [[crisis]]", purported to be caused by decades of inadequate investment and poor maintenance of public works.

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