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subprefect

  • a word derived from prefect.
    prefect
    noun
    a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.

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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

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

"We needed to start from the beginning again," says Antoinette Uwimana, subprefect for the Kibungo region.

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

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