Definition of "cadre" []

• A nucleus of trained personnel around which a larger organization can be built and trained: a cadre of corporals who train recruits. (noun)
• A tightly knit group of zealots who are active in advancing the interests of a revolutionary party. (noun)
• A member of such a group. (noun)
• A framework. (noun)

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• "Hua Hsu opens his essay with a look at some of the fears about racial encroachment that once prevailed among a certain cadre of scholarly white men in the 1920s:"
• "At the day-care center where she sends her 9-month-old daughter, Ms. Druckerman learns that the national parenting ideal is called the cadre , or frame."