cadre
Americannoun
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Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
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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.
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(especially in Communist countries) a cell of trained and devoted workers.
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a member of a cadre; a person qualified to serve in a cadre.
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a framework, outline, or scheme.
noun
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the nucleus of trained professional servicemen forming the basis for the training of new units or other military expansion
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a basic unit or structure, esp of specialists or experts; nucleus; core
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a group of revolutionaries or other political activists, esp when taking part in military or terrorist activities
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a member of a cadre
Etymology
Origin of cadre
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 “square”; quadri-
Example Sentences
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But now a cadre of them is ditching carefully worded communiqués in favor of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm—in English.
But now a cadre of bureaucrats in Paris’s gilded Quai d’Orsay are ditching their carefully worded communiqués in favor of a stream of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm…in English.
The increasing complexity of government operations since World War I naturally led to the rise of a professionally trained cadre of experts.
But even he must occasionally reassure the population, and especially the Party cadres, that what he is doing makes some sort of sense.
From BBC
As a privately held company with a cadre of investors who bought into Musk’s vision, SpaceX has been largely shielded from such hype cycles.
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