cadre

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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

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

Their enquiry was entirely confined to the question of obtaining the maximum development from the existing cadres. — History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) : Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government, Great Britain. War Office
I got the definite impression one of the unsmiling whiz kids in Noda's handpicked cadre could chew up about five American MBAs for breakfast. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
So the thinking went, and Ahmed and his cadre platooned them- selves often, in any of the thousands of American resort complex- es, unnoticed, to gauge the progress of their assignments. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau

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