# cadre
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɑː.də/, /ˈkɑː.dɹə/
* (US) IPA: /ˈkɑ.dɹeɪ/, /ˈkæd.ɹeɪ/, /ˈkɑ.dɹə/, /ˈkæd.ɹi/, /ˈkɑ.dɹi/, /ˈkɑ.dɚ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

cadre (plural cadres)
* A frame or framework.
** 1848, Parliamentary Papers, volume 27, page 283:[…] 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.
* (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
** 2002, Barry M. Stentiford, chapter 9, in The American Home Guard: the State Militia in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN, page 202: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.
* (chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
** 1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature‎, page 101:After the war, he was a party cadre and worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper Zeri i Popullit (The People's Voice).
** 1997, Jae Ho Chung, edited by David S.G. Goodman, China's Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture, Routledge, page 146: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.
** 2006, “China airbrushes Chen”, in Financial Times‎:Party cadres must guard against the temptations of power, money and sex.
* A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.

#### Derived terms

* cadreman
* cadreship

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Cedar, Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cared, cedar, decar, e-card, ecard, raced

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”). Cf. Old French querre, inherited from the same source; see also carre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kadʁ/ ~ /kɑdʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cadre m (plural cadres)
* frame (of a door or picture)
* backbone (of an organization)
* box, square (on a printed page)
* (business) executive, middle manager
** 1994, Michel Houellebecq, Extension du domaine de la lutte:Vendredi soir, j’étais invité à une soirée chez un collègue de travail. On était une bonne trentaine, rien que des cadres moyens âgés de vint-cinq à quarante ans.Friday night, I was invited to a party at a work colleague's house. There were thirty or so of us there, just middle managers between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
* scope, framework
* (military) cadre
* context, parameters
* (cycling) frame
    cadre en fibre de carbone ― carbon fiber frame
* environment, setting
    cadre de vie ― living environment

#### Derived terms

* cadrage
* cadrer
* dans le cadre de...
* décadrer
* encadrer

#### Related terms

* carre
* carreau
* carrer
* encadrement
* équerre

#### Descendants

* → Bulgarian: ка́дър (kádǎr)
* → English: cadre
* → German: Kader
* → Russian: кадр (kadr)
** → Kazakh: кадр (kadr)
* → Turkish: kadro

### Verb

cadre
* inflection of cadrer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cadre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* carde
* crade

## Galician
### Verb

cadre
* inflection of cadrar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative