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The core group loyal enough to do the work no one's watching.
means A small, tightly knit group of trained people who form the core of a larger organization and can be counted on to carry out its real work.
from From French 'cadre,' meaning frame or framework, which came from Italian 'quadro' (a square), tracing back to Latin 'quadrum.' The military sense grew naturally from this: a cadre was literally the officer 'frame' or skeleton staff around which a full regiment could be built up when needed — the structural bones that hold the rest together.
- military origin
- from french for frame or skeleton structure
- size matters
- small and tight, not a crowd
- communist usage
- trained ideological operative, not just member
- modern drift
- now means any dedicated inner circle