cadre

n. framework; nucleus or core group capable of assuming control and training others

En cadre is a military expression for a group around whom a unit is formed, or a training staff. For other uses of the term, see Cadre (disambiguation). Cadre (from the French; pronounced /kɑdʀ/, CAH-druh) are the backbone of an organization, usually a political organization. The assumption of the cadre model is that this small core of ultra-committed people are capable of recreating the organization's structure and ideological direction even if the current organizational form has been destroyed and all other members have been killed or imprisoned. For professional revolutionaries the cadre consider themselves subject to the discipline and self-discipline of a political vanguard party model.
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Cadre principally refers to committed people within an organization that form, or have the capacity to form, the backbone of that organization. However, the term may also refer to:En cadre, also 'cadre' for short, a military expression for a group of officers or NCOs around whom a unit is formed, or a training staffA group of professional revolutionaries in a communist movementAn office-holder in the People's Republic of ChinaCadre (comics), a DC Comics supervillain groupConsortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special EducationThe CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University
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Noun
1. a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
(synonym) cell
(hypernym) political unit
(hyponym) sleeper cell
(member-holonym) political movement
2. a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
(hypernym) core, nucleus, core group
(member-holonym) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine

n. frame, picture frame; skeleton; structure; space; border; surroundings; framework; data packet that includes header and footer fields that are needed to display data on a physical medium (Internet) scope, cadre; manager, executive

v. frame; tally, correspond

(n.)
The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.