cadre
pronunciation
How to pronounce cadre in British English:
UK [ˈkɑːdə(r)]
How to pronounce cadre in American English:
US [ˈkædri]
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- Noun:
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
Word Origin
- cadre
- cadre: see quarter
- cadre (n.)
- 1830, from French cadre, literally "a frame of a picture" (16c.), so, "a detachment forming the skeleton of a regiment" (1851), from Italian quadro, from Latin quadrum "a square" (see quadrille). The communist sense is from 1930.
Example
- 1. Expect more telecoms sector " cadre exchanges " to come .
- 2. A more powerful afghan army and were supported by a cadre of motivated afghan communists .
- 3. That 's why the generals felt obliged to shape a new constitution , though it leaves the same military cadre running the country in civilian clothes .
- 4. India 's proposal for a rural cadre outraged the country 's medical establishment , and legislation to create the three-and-a-half-year degree has gone nowhere .
- 5. Germans firms tend to promote specialists , technicians who know the answers to precise technical questions , whereas french firms promote from an elite cadre of generalist engineers .