prefect
noun
Examples of prefect in a Sentence
Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
Among those killed were the Italian bus driver and people carrying passports from Austria, Croatia, France, Spain and Ukraine, Venice's prefect, Michele Di Bari, told the outlet.
—Stacy Lambe, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
The clarification was issued Sept. 5 by Semeraro, who is the prefect of the Vatican’s saint-making office.
—Monika Scislowska, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
Mike Gilbert, who has known O’Connor since the pair were 11, tells a story about the day the school prefects were announced.
—Gaby Wood, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2023
Laurent Nuñez, the Paris police prefect, told the French TV channel CNews on Wednesday that the two officers had tried to stop the car because the driver had committed several traffic violations and had refused to stop a first time before getting stuck in traffic.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Vatican’s culture office, said the statement was a reflection of the Vatican’s dialogue with Indigenous peoples.
—Nicole Winfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2023
Nashville school shooting live updates:Officers Engelbert, Collazo seen in body cam video hailed as heroes A statement by the CGT claimed that requisitions of trucks, incinerators and personnel, ordered by the Paris police prefect, had bled the movement, leading to its suspension.
—Thomas Adamson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
The door opened and a prefect came in.
—Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
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Word History
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin praefectus, from past participle of praeficere to place at the head of, from prae- + facere to make — more at do
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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