subprefect
- a word derived from prefect.
Example Sentences
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"The industry is growing, molding and adjusting," said Lieutenant-Colonel Miguel Calderon, subprefect of the police division in charge of licensing private security.
From Reuters • Apr. 25, 2023
"We needed to start from the beginning again," says Antoinette Uwimana, subprefect for the Kibungo region.
From Time Magazine Archive
In those days a deputy would call on the prefect of police with his hat in his hand, while today the subprefect meets the deputy at the railroad station and carries his bag.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coulet promptly fired the incumbent Vichyite subprefect, whom the British had instructed to stay on the job, and replaced him with a Resistance fighter.
From Time Magazine Archive
A "subprefect," and several picked men among his subordinates, happened to be up, maturing, I believe, some scheme for discovering the perpetrator of a mysterious murder which all Paris was talking of just then.
From Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
