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infrastructure - 13 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | infrastructure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation |
| Synonyms: | base, footing, framework, groundwork, root, support, underpinning |
| Main Entry: | cadre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nucleus of effort |
| Synonyms: | core, force, framework, infrastructure, organization, personnel, staff, key group, officers |
| Main Entry: | groundwork |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basis, fundamentals |
| Synonyms: | background, base, bedrock*, cornerstone*, footing, foundation, ground, infrastructure, origin, preparation, root, underpinning, ABCs, preliminaries, substratum, understructure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoi polloi |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
| Synonyms: | Middle America, common people, infrastructure, masses, multitude, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, commonality, commoners, great unwashed, huddled masses, plebians, the common people, the herd, the many, the masses, the multitude, the proletariat, the working class, vulgus |
| Main Entry: | root |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | base, core |
| Synonyms: | basis, bedrock, bottom, cause, center, crux, derivation, essence, footing, foundation, fountain, fountainhead, fundamental, germ, ground, groundwork, heart, inception, infrastructure, marrow, motive, nub, nucleus, occasion, origin, pith, provenance, quick, quintessence, reason, rock bottom*, seat, seed, soul, source, stem, stuff, substance, tuber, underpinning, well, beginnings, essentiality, mainspring, provenience, radicle, radix, rhizome, starting point, substratum |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Antonyms: | derivation, derivative, sprout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inner circle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corps of advisers |
| Synonyms: | brain trust, cadre, charmed circle, cohort, infrastructure, inside, kitchen cabinet, brains trust, in-crowd, in-group, we-group |
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation |
| Synonyms: | basement, basis, bed, bedrock, bottom, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, infrastructure, pedestal, rest, root, seat, seating, stand, support, underpinning, substratum, substructure |
| Antonyms: | top |
| Main Entry: | footing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation, basis |
| Synonyms: | basement, bedrock, bottom, establishment, foot, foothold, ground, groundwork, infrastructure, installation, seat, seating, settlement, underpinning, warrant, resting place, substratum, substructure, understructure |
| Main Entry: | foundation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basis for something physical or mental |
| Synonyms: | authority, base, basics, bed, bedrock, bottom, bottom line*, brass tacks*, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, guts*, heart*, infrastructure, justification, nitty-gritty*, nub*, nuts and bolts*, prop, reason, root, stay, support, underpinning, ABCs, substratum, substructure, understructure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fundamental part |
| Synonyms: | authority, backbone, basis, core, essence, essential, evidence, foundation, fundamental, groundwork, heart, infrastructure, key, origin, principal, principle, root, source, underpinning, chief constituent, important part, primary element |
| Main Entry: | basis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation for belief, action |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, assumption, authority, axiom, backbone, background, backing, base, bedrock, cause, center, core, crux, data, dictum, essence, essential, evidence, explanation, footing, fundamental, heart, infrastructure, justification, keynote, keystone, law, nexus, nucleus, postulate, premise, presumption, principle, proof, reason, root, sanction, security, source, support, theorem, theory, underpinning, warrant, chief ingredient, hard fact, presupposition, principal element, rudiment, substratum |
| Main Entry: | fabric |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | structure |
| Synonyms: | building, consistency, constitution, construction, foundation, frame, framework, infrastructure, mold, organization, stamp, substance, texture, make-up |
| Main Entry: | grounds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basis, premise |
| Synonyms: | account, antecedent, argument, base, bedrock*, call, cause, chapter and verse*, demonstration, dope*, evidence, excuse, factor, footing, foundation, goods*, groundwork, inducement, information*, infrastructure, justification, motive, occasion, pretext, proof, rationale, reason, root*, seat, test, testimony, trial, underpinning, wherefore, why, determinant, info, numbers, straight stuff, substratum, whyfor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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