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US
/ˈpɹiˌfɛkt/
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[ UK /pɹˈiːfɛkt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈiːfɛkt/ ]
NOUN
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a chief officer or chief magistrate
the prefect of Paris police
How To Use prefect In A Sentence
- Her inquiries included evidence being laid before the judge at first instance of correspondence between herself and appropriate medical authorities in the prefecture that included Salonika and her village and areas.
- The two other plants where operations are suspended are the Takasaki plant in Gunma Prefecture and the Kofu plant in Yamanashi Prefecture, which together account for about 15% of the company's early-stage chip production capacity. Chip Maker Runs at Half Speed
- One of his first tasks after buying a dilapidated farmhouse in the Chiba prefecture, about 60 miles east of Tokyo, was to build a huge wooden bathtub.
- Typhoon Roke first made landfall in the tourist town of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture at about 2 p.m. local time Wednesday, knocking over trucks and ripping roofs from homes, then crawled up Japan's Honshu island. Storm Strikes Central Japan
- Already he had responsibility within the school and he would have been a school prefect without doubt.
- However the Roman prefect of Alexandria was Orestes and Cyril and Orestes became bitter political rivals as church and state fought for control.
- Two other prefectures — Kagoshima and Aichi — reported bird-flu outbreaks in January, with nearly 160,000 birds being culled in total. Bird Flu Spreads in Japan
- Transportation was handled by designated transportation commissioners, and mines were under local officials of prefecture (fu), subprefecture (zhou), county (xian), and subcounty (ting) where mines were located. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
- The operators of two nuclear-power plants in the northern prefecture of Aomori said they were running on emergency diesel power after the quake knocked out external power, but by Friday morning, all operations were normal and external power had been restored. Powerful New Quake Rattles Battered Region
- Puli subprefect Hiyama Tetsusaburo was the first prominent Japanese official to marry into an Aborigine polity. Archive 2008-10-01