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ca⋅dre
[kad-ree, kah-drey] 
–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 work force: They hoped to form a cadre of veteran party members. |
| 3. | (esp. 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. |
Origin:
1905–10; < F: frame, border, bounds, cadre (metaphorically, the cadre being the framework into which temporary personnel are fit) < It quadro < L quadrum square; see quadri-
1905–10; < F: frame, border, bounds, cadre (metaphorically, the cadre being the framework into which temporary personnel are fit) < It quadro < L quadrum square; see quadri-
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| ca·dre (kä'drā, -drə, kād'rē) n.
[French, from Italian quadro, frame, from Latin quadrum, a square; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Cadre
Ca"dre\, n. [F. cadre, It. quadro square, from L. quadrum, fr. quatuor four.] (Mil.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. [Written also cader.]
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Language Translation for : cadre
Spanish:
marco,
German:
der Rahmen,
Japanese:
わく
cadre [(kad-ree, kah-dray)]
An elite or select group that forms the core of an organization and is capable of training new members.
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cadre
1830, from Fr., lit. "a frame," so, "a detachment forming the skeleton of a regiment" (1851), from It. quadro, from L. quadrum "a square." The communist sense is from 1930.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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CADRE company
The US software engineering vendor which merged with Bachman Information Systems to form Cayenne Software in July 1996.
(1998-02-08)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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