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n. The executive of a subprefecture.
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A Subprefect is the executive of a subprefecture. The subprefect serves under the municipality's prefect.
Usage examples of "subprefect".
All Rome would know within the hour that Marcia had called on Cornificia, and that Livius, the subprefect, had been mocked by Marcia in public.
I explained as quickly as possible how my putting excess order into the chairs for the subprefect had disrupted Gallos and forced me to leave precipitously.
He walked carefully behind the guards who trailed the subprefect, trying to keep his steps in the same rhythm as theirs, hoping no one stopped too quickly.
Recognizing the modulated voice of the subprefect, Cerryl used his senses to ease his way along the walls toward the double doors.
A ridiculous incident, the fact that the wife of a subprefect had danced at the Moulin Rouge, forced the minister to face a vote of censure, and he was within a few votes of being defeated.
At each gesture of impatience the subprefects quietly impelled the crowd to quicker movement.