Noun

(en noun)

The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.

That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.

Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.

Noun

(en noun)

A frame or framework.

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

* {{quote-book, year=2002

, author=Barry M. Stentiford , title=The American Home Guard: the State Militia in the Twentieth Century , chapter=9 , isbn=1585441813 , page=202 , passage=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.}}

The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.

* {{quote-book, 1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature, page=101 citation

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

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

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.

* 2006 , Financial Times, China airbrushes Chen :

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

a small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession