cadre · noun — A frame or framework. It carries an Arena rating of 1534, earned across 188 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, cadre ranks #905 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #1,083 of 17,143 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #1,290 of 17,136 for Most Malleable Words, #2,364 of 17,128 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
cadre is pronounced /ˈkɑː.də/.
Why “cadre” is a great word
CADRE — [Noun] A small, permanent core group of trained personnel around which a larger organization, especially a military or political one, can be formed and trained. From French cadre ("frame"), from Italian quadro ("framed painting, square"), from Latin quadrum ("square"), from quattuor ("four"). Unlike "staff," which broadly denotes all operational personnel, or "framework," which implies a conceptual structure, a cadre is the living, foundational skeleton. It is the dozen hardened instructors awaiting conscripts in an empty camp; the clandestine cell of ideologues printing pamphlets in a basement; the veteran engineers preserving a decommissioned ship. Every sprawling institution remembers, in its bones, the human square from which it was measured.
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Etymology
Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”).
noun
- A frame or framework.
- The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.e.g.“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.
- A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.
- Synonym of RAII.
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