Government owned and operated infrastructure may be developed and operated in the private sector or in public-private partnerships, in addition to in the public sector. As of 2008 in the United States for example, public spending on infrastructure has varied between 2.3% and 3.6% of GDP since 1950.
Definition of outpost for English Language Learners. : a large military camp that is in another country or that is far from a country's center of activity.
Definition of CAMP. 1. c: a settlement newly sprung up in a lumbering or mining region. 2. a: a body of persons encamped b (1) : a group of persons; especially: a group engaged in promoting or defending a theory, doctrine, position, or person (2) : an ideological position. 3. : military service or life. ADVERTISEMENT.