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cadre

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ca⋅dre

  [kad-ree, kah-drey]
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–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-
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ca·dre   (kä'drā, -drə, kād'rē)   
n.  

  1. A nucleus of trained personnel around which a larger organization can be built and trained: a cadre of corporals who train recruits.

    1. A tightly knit group of zealots who are active in advancing the interests of a revolutionary party.

    2. A member of such a group.

  3. A framework.


[French, from Italian quadro, frame, from Latin quadrum, a square; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.]
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Cultural Dictionary

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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Word Origin & History

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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Computing Dictionary

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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