cadre
UK/ˈkɑː.də/US/ˈkɑ.dɹeɪ/
cadre noun: a frame or framework.
Noun (1)
cadre (plural cadres)
- A frame or framework.
- […] 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.1848, Parliamentary Papers, volume 27, page 283
- […] He took away the frame itself, as well as the notice.
- The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
- 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.2002, Barry M. Stentiford, chapter 9, in The American Home Guard: the State Militia in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN, page 202
- The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
- In an article concerning Yunnan, it pointed out that the efforts of the Nuchiang Lisu Autonomous Chou’s party committee had resulted in a doubling of minorities cadres since 1965, and that many of these persons had assumed the first and second positions in leadership squads at different levels.1976, June Teufel Dreyer, China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 242
- After the war, he was a party cadre and worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper Zeri i Popullit (The People's Voice).1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature, page 101
- A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.
Noun (2) capitalized: CADRe
CADRe (uncountable)
cadre meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cadre in Hindi
- कैडर, संवर्ग, काडर
cadre in Tamil
- பணி நிலைப் பிரிவு, பணிநிலைப் பிரிவு, பணியிடைப் பிரிவு, பணிவழிப் பிரிவு, பணிநிலை, பணியாளர் இனம்
cadre in Marathi
- कॅडर, केडर, संवर्ग
cadre in Urdu
- کیڈر, کاڈر
More languagesFewer languages
- cadre in Bengali
- প্রশিক্ষিত কর্মীদের মূল দল, ক্যাডার
- cadre in Telugu
- కేడర్, క్యాడర్, కాడర్
- cadre in Malayalam
- സെെന്യത്തിലെ സ്ഥിരവിഭാഗം, പാർട്ടിയിലെ സ്ഥിരം പ്രവർത്തകർ, മുഖ്യപ്രവർത്തകരുടെ സംഘം, ദളം
- cadre in Kannada
- ದಳ, ಪಡೆ, ಗುಂಪು, ಕಾಡರ್
- cadre in Punjabi
- ਕਾਡਰ, ਕੈਡਰ, ਕੇਡਰ
- cadre in Gujarati
- કેડર, સંવર્ગ
- cadre in Odia
- କ୍ଯ଼ାଡର, କ୍ଯ଼ାଡର୍, କେଡର୍
- cadre in Nepali
- क्याडर, काडर, केडर
- cadre in Indonesian
- kader
- cadre in Persian
- کادر kâdr
- cadre in Vietnamese
- cán bộ
Examples of cadre in a sentence
- The governor selected a cadre of blue ribbon social scientists to serve on her poverty task force.
- Russia should be using these people to cadre out the 'Mobniks.'
- Suddenly, one of the cadre appeared from out of the darkness.
Synonyms of cadre
Forms of cadre
| plural | cadres |
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Origin of cadre
Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”).
Words formed from cadre
Phrases with cadre
Questions about cadre
- What does cadre mean?
- Cadre means a frame or framework.
- What is cadre in Hindi?
- Cadre in Hindi is कैडर, संवर्ग, काडर. See Cadre meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cadre?
- Cadre is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cadre?
- Cadre is pronounced /ˈkɑː.də/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cadre?
- The plural of cadre is cadres.
Words near cadre in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cadre (page history and authors); CADRe (page history and authors); cadre (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadre (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cadre (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadre (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadre (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cadre (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadre (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); cadre (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cadre (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadre (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadre (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cadre (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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