cadre
kad ree
- n a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- n a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
- Within the 25,000-member Nation of Islam, it is useful to remember, he is flanked by a cadre of militant black nationalists who get riled whenever he makes overtures to Jews.
- He joined the CPC in 193811 years before Chairman Mao's peasant army swept into Beijingand remained a committed cadre even after his father, a landowner, was killed by .
- Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov, known by his revolutionary nom de guerre, Lenin, inspired a small cadre of Communist intellectuals to agitate amongst the workers and soldiers of Petrograd .