Definition of "cadre"

[…] 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.

1848, Parliamentary Papers, volume 27, page 283

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, page 202

After the war, he was a party cadre and worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper Zeri i Popullit (The People's Voice).

1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature‎, page 101

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.

1997, Jae Ho Chung, edited by David S.G. Goodman, China's Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture, Routledge, page 146

Party cadres must guard against the temptations of power, money and sex.

2006, “China airbrushes Chen”, in Financial Times‎