Meaning

4 senses
  1. A frame or framework.

    структу́раstruktúra, ра́мкаrámka, карка́сkarkás

  2. The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.

    Kader

    ка́дрыkádry

    ка́дрові війська́kádrovi vijsʹká, кадрkadr, кадрови́кkadrovýk

  3. The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.

    Kader

    руководя́щие ка́дрыrukovodjáščije kádry

  4. A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.

More definitions
  • a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
  • a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

Examples

4 sentences
  1. I still haven't thought of a cadre name.

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  2. The cadres inspected our school.

    deDie Kader haben unsere Schule in Augenschein genommen.

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  3. Of course Tom was encouraging the riot — him and his cadre of drunken, deluded sycophants.

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  4. Tom Jackson is his cadre name.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
military: skeleton upon which regiment is formed; its officers:
Русский
By meaning 3
frame or framework:
military: skeleton upon which regiment is formed; its officers:
chiefly in communism: core of managing group:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
military: skeleton upon which regiment is formed; its officers:

Origin

Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin qu

Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”).

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Forms

plural: cadres
Singularcadre
Pluralcadres

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement:cell

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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