cadre

  1. Noun.  A frame or framework.
  2. Noun.  (context, military) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
  3. Noun.  (chiefly, in) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.

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