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.
Full Definition of COLONIAL. 1. : a member or inhabitant of a colony. 2. a: a product (as a coin or stamp) made for use in a colony b: a product exhibiting colonial style; especially often capitalized: a house built in the neoclassical style of the American colonial period.