English

Noun

cadre ‎(plural cadres)

1. A frame or framework.
2. (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
   • 2002, Barry M. Stentiford, chapter 9, in 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.

3. (chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
   • 1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature, 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).

   • 1997, Jae Ho Chung, China's Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture, edited by David S.G. Goodman, Routledge, p. 146:

     Finally, the exchange, circulation and education of local cadres constitute another key strategy implemented by the provincial leadership in its efforts to diffuse economic development into the backward inland region.

   • 2006, Financial Times, China airbrushes Chen:

     Party cadres must guard against the temptations of power, money and sex.

4. A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.

Translations

Anagrams

• acred, arced, cared, Cedar, cedar, e-card, ecard, raced

French

Etymology

From Italian quadro ‎(“square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor ‎(“four”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑdʁ/

Noun

cadre m ‎(plural cadres)

1. The frame of a door or picture.
2. The backbone of an organization.
3. An imprinted box on a page.
4. An executive.
5. A scope or framework.
6. (military) cadre
7. context, parameters
8. frame (of a bicycle)

Derived terms

• cadrage
• cadrer
• dans le cadre de...
• décadrer
• encadrer

Descendants

• German: Kader
• Russian: кадр ‎(kadr)

Verb

cadre

1. first-person singular present indicative of cadrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cadrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cadrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cadrer
5. second-person singular imperative of cadrer

Anagrams

• carde
• crade