Cadre

Quick meaning: Cadre is a noun meaning A frame or framework.

Meaning

A frame or framework.

More Meanings

1. (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
2. A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.
3. (chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.

Example Sentences

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

After the war, he was a party cadre and worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper Zeri i Popullit (The People's Voice).

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.

[…] He took away the frame itself, as well as the notice. Mr. MacCulloch. I recollect Mr. Dobrée stating that his reason for taking the cadre was, that the notice was pasted, and that he could not unpaste it.

Word Forms

• cadres

Synonyms for cadre

Depending on context, synonyms include cell.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cell, frame, framework, part, corps, box.

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