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cadre

[ ka-drey, kah-drey ]

noun

  1. Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
  2. a group of trained or otherwise qualified personnel capable of forming, training, or leading an expanded organization, as a religious or political faction, or a skilled workforce:

    They hoped to form a cadre of veteran party members.

  3. (especially in Communist countries) a cell of trained and devoted workers.
  4. a member of a cadre; a person qualified to serve in a cadre.
  5. a framework, outline, or scheme.


cadre

/ ˈ°ìÉ‘Ë»åÉ™ /

noun

  1. the nucleus of trained professional servicemen forming the basis for the training of new units or other military expansion
  2. a basic unit or structure, esp of specialists or experts; nucleus; core
  3. a group of revolutionaries or other political activists, esp when taking part in military or terrorist activities
  4. a member of a cadre
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cadre

  1. An elite or select group that forms the core of an organization and is capable of training new members.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cadre1

First recorded in 1905–10; from French: “frame, border, bounds, cadre†(metaphorically, the cadre being the framework into which temporary personnel are fit), from Italian quadro, from Latin quadrum “s±ç³Ü²¹°ù±ðâ€; quadri-
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cadre1

C19: from French, from Italian quadro, from Latin quadrum square
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Example Sentences

He has noted in congressional testimony that the agency’s employee cadre had reached a 50-year low, even as the number of recipients reached a record.

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"We are dangerously low in numbers and it is unfair to expect our present officer cadre to continue to pick up the slack indefinitely," Mr Kelly said.

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Other issues related to the concentration of corporate ownership in the hands of a small cadre of fund managers have arisen.

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But these were seen as mere face and revenue saving exercises rather than substantial change, especially because the president's replacement was of the same leadership cadre.

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Hezbollah is thought to have lost thousands of its cadres, including the upper echelons of its military leadership, and a significant portion of its arsenal in the fight.

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