physical infrastructure

collocation in English

meanings of physicaland infrastructure

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physical
adjective
uk /ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/ us /ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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infrastructure
noun[C usually singular]
uk /ˈɪn.frəˌstrʌk.tʃər/ us /ˈɪn.frəˌstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to ...
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Examples of physical infrastructure

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Bridges do not get built in a day, and physicalinfrastructure accumulates slowly.
However, jointly financed and managed physicalinfrastructure is still rare.
Interrelated factors highlighted include the 'social glue', civic infrastructure, physicalinfrastructure, external links, and attitudes and expectations.
Where physicalinfrastructure is in an upstream nation, downstream impacts may be ignored after the structure has been completed.
Significant investments in physicalinfrastructure are necessary, especially in the form of transportation and communication systems.
The creation of markets, where they are missing, requires a substantial investment in physical infrastructure, particularly in rural areas and backward regions.
Physicalinfrastructure in turn reduces transaction costs and allows greater resource mobility, with investment flowing to the highest returning sectors.
This means training and educating a more skilled and higher-cost workforce, and improving the island's physicalinfrastructure and socio-economic institutions, while attempting to find new markets.
The social system underpinned by irrigated agriculture then 'fails' in the sense that social complexity declines, physicalinfrastructure deteriorates, and, in some cases, is completely abandoned.
Physicalinfrastructure has been neglected.
In addition to the destruction of physicalinfrastructure and reversing the gains of decades of development, the wars and instability in the region have caused more than 300,000 deaths.
A possible alternative would be to change the cross-sectional area of the conductors, but this technological solution has the drawback of changing the entire physicalinfrastructure of the lines.
Population density increases the return to investment in physicalinfrastructure, so the two densities tend to be highly correlated.
More specifically, where the state's revenue is unaffected by the massive destruction of physical infrastructure or loss of territory, the urgency of negotiations is not as compelling.
However, there are ex ante costs of blood screening and blood donor selection procedures (37;50), further suggesting costs to human and physicalinfrastructure, which our study did not include.
This assessment is limited to the costs of physicalinfrastructure, excluding indirect losses such as project delays or suspensions.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Very often, physicalinfrastructure, too, is targeted.
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The fourth and final pillar of our agenda is revitalising our social and physicalinfrastructure.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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