cadre
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From French cadre, from Italian quadro (“‘square’”), from Latin quadrum, from quatuor (“‘four’”).
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cadre (plural cadres)
- A frame or framework.
- (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
- 2002, Barry M. Stentiford, Chapter 9, The American Home Guard: the State Militia in the Twentieth Century, ISBN 1585441813, page 202:
- From the original plan, thirty-four cadre battalions, with a total of 116 companies, had actually been formed, a total of about 700 officers and another 600 key enlisted men.
- 2002, Barry M. Stentiford, Chapter 9, The American Home Guard: the State Militia in the Twentieth Century, ISBN 1585441813, page 202:
- (chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
- 1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature[1], page 101:
- After the war, he was a party cadre and worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper Zeri i Popullit (The People's Voice).
- 2006, Financial Times, China airbrushes Chen:
- Party cadres must guard against the temptations of power, money and sex.
- 1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature[1], page 101:
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frame or framework
skeleton upon which regiment is formed
core of managing group
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cadre m. (plural cadres)
- The frame of a door or picture.
- The backbone of an organization.
- An imprinted box on a page.
- An executive.
- The scope or framework.
- A list of military officers
