Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A nucleus of trained personnel around which a larger organization can be built and trained: a cadre of corporals who train recruits.
- n. A tightly knit group of zealots who are active in advancing the interests of a revolutionary party.
- n. A member of such a group.
- n. A framework.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A skeleton or framework; specifically, in France, the permanently organized skeleton or framework of a regiment or corps, consisting of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, etc., around whom the rank and file may be assembled at short notice.
Wiktionary
- n. A frame or framework.
- n. military The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
- n. The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mil.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
- n. a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
Etymologies
- From French cadre, from Italian quadro ("square"), from Latin quadrum, from quatuor ("four"). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Italian quadro, frame, from Latin quadrum, a square. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The oldest professional law enforcement cadre is the new Woolworths. on May 29, 2009 at 1: 10 pm uphilldowndale”
“Hua Hsu opens his essay with a look at some of the fears about racial encroachment that once prevailed among a certain cadre of scholarly white men in the 1920s:”
“At the day-care center where she sends her 9-month-old daughter, Ms. Druckerman learns that the national parenting ideal is called the cadre , or frame.”
“Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Michael McCaffery left and turned the hearing over to Senator Levesque, who seemed pleased and entertained by the cadre from the sex industry.”
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“First comes a cadre from the electric company and then the gas company.”
“Oh yeah, and regarding yesterdays post; for a non comic fan, you used the word cadre in a way that would make Chris Cleremont proud!”
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“An officer cadre is certainly something to think about.”
“The president's cable cadre is in disarray as well.”
“At the upper echelon, political cadre from the Central Party Organ were joined with professional cadre of the armed services (police and military) in an organization similar in nature to the National Security Council of the U.S.”
“District, HA TAY Province, NVN, given by cadre from the 304th NVA Div.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cadre’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
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hunting
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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ocracy
politically motivated
demagogue, autocracy, oligarchy, reformist, cadre, colonialism, neo imperalism, nationalist, neoliberal, communism, socialism, egalitarianism and 5 more...
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LYNIJOE'S LIST
ANY NEW VERY USEFUL WORDS
urari, urao, vifda, pterins, awee, nipters, novena, novenae, ilex, obiit, oobit, dzo and 6 more...
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Favorite Words
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catinthehat345's List
compere, reticle, colophon, miasma, eldritch, raconteur, plectrum, poltroon, vestibular, pastiche, cravat, acumen and 179 more...
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Favorites
disparage, partisan, cupidity, hokum, tussle, odious, dastardly, overture, plane, chronic, peering, peer and 328 more...
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Words I Should Use More Often
Words that I'll use to sound erudite.
fungible, aggrandizement, tete-a-tete, sententious, serendipitous, fortuitous, lugubrious, declivity, propitiatory, volubility, august, tenebrous and 214 more...
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my GRE words
pedant, wizened, histrionic, logorrhea, frenetic, approbation, quibble, knell, acclivity, droog, prevarication, aplomb and 182 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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CCW
Commonly Confused Words
wreath, wreathe, titillate, titivate, proscribe, prescribe, pedal, peddle, mettle, metal, palette, palate and 132 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Novel Words
Concise words to sprinkle in my prose.
apropos, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, antinomy, sanguine, glyph, taciturn, aesthetic, truncate, coffee and 143 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words to remember from DFW's "Infinite Jest"
wen, matriculation, circumflex, lapidary, effete, sotto, hypertrophy, presbyopic, ideogram, pinion, parquet, nelson and 152 more...
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