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infrastructure
Noun
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A place's infrastructure is the basic public works such as roads, electricity & water supply, and schools, that allow it to function.
The construction of the BAM railway will provide an infrastructure for exports to Japan and the US.
The new bridge will be one of Europe's largest ever infrastructure projects.
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The infrastructure is the basic ideas and systems that support an organisation or a project.
The hardware-software system provides an infrastructure for messaging applications across the company.
development
Noun
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growth
The development of this story has been slow.
The organism has reached an important part in its development.
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Something which has developed
Our news team brings you the latest developments.
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A real estate development.
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Using new ideas for practical problems.
Our development department has created three new adhesives this year.
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The active placement of the pieces, or the process of doing it
White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.
division
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Divisions are the parts of something after division.
There are four divisions (or sections) in a classical pas de deux.
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A division is a large military unit (group of soldiers)
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A division is a section of a large company.
This division of GenericTech specializes in the manufacturing of routers.
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When scientists are grouping kinds of animals, a division is a kind of group (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class.
Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
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A division is a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
There is a division in the Senate between politicians who support abortions and politicians who do not.
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A division is a piece of music (melody), played with musical instruments, in the 17th and 18th centuries based on another piece.
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A division is a set of pipes in a pipe organ.
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A division is a concept where a common group of debtors (people who owe money) are only responsible for part of the total debt.