cadre

American  

[ka-drey, kah-drey] / ˈkæ dreɪ, ˈkɑ dreɪ /

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.

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cadre British  

/ ˈkɑːdə /

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

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cadre Cultural  

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

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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

Investors want to see how Constellation plans to profit off its recent acquisition of Calpine, another power producer that owns a large cadre of natural gas plants.

From Barron's

In this way, Bill’s cadre of customers became a can-do community, and our small corner of the world was better for it.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Because there aren’t really objective measures of how this will work, cadres and officials are going to be really nervous as they try to implement the law,” said Oidtmann, the historian.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once Paris was liberated in August 1944, a small cadre of FBI agents known as the Army Liaison Unit arrived and set up shop.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, in certain places, it has struggled to convey this message to cadres.

From BBC

Related Words

• organization
• personnel
• staff