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subprefecture
n. An administrative division of a country that is below prefecture.
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Subprefecture
Subprefecture is an administrative division of a country that is below prefecture or province.
Usage examples of "subprefecture".
For the past ten years, the Robineau Institute beat the imperial lycee of the town at every competitive examination, and all the colleges of the subprefecture, and these constant successes were due, they said, to an usher, a simple usher, M.
The island laws were administered through some half-assed tribunal called a subprefecture on St.