cadre

plural cadres

1. 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

2. governmentThe 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

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

   Party cadres must guard against the temptations of power, money and sex.

   2006, “China airbrushes Chen”, in Financial Times

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   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

   Finally, the exchange, circulation and education of local cadres constitute another key strategy implemented by the provincial leadership in its efforts to diffuse economic development into the backward inland region.

   1997, Jae Ho Chung, edited by David S.G. Goodman, China's Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture, Routledge, page 146

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

1. uncountableSynonym of RAII.

   Synonyms: RAII