English-French translations for prefect

• préfet
  Ces faits ont été soulignés il y a quelques mois, dans le rapport du préfet italien, M. Serra, au Parlement italien. This was highlighted a few months ago in the report by the Italian Prefect Mr Serra to the Italian Parliament.
  Simplement, à titre d'exemple, lors de la fermeture du camp par le préfet du Var, le 1er mars, 449 personnes devaient être prises en charge. For example, when the camp was closed by the prefect of Var, on 1 March, 449 people were supposed to have been taken into custody.
  Rien n'empêche un pays de conférer des pouvoirs aux préfets pour gérer ces questions tant qu'il existe un droit d'appel. There is nothing to stop a country giving powers to prefects to deal with it as long as there is a right of appeal.
• préfète

Definition of prefect

• An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc
• The head of a department in France
• A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils

Examples

• the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, or of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperors person

Related words

• prefecture
• prefectural
• subprefect
• subprefecture
• prefecture|Prefecture
• Kyoto Prefecture
• Nagasaki Prefecture
• Nara Prefecture
• Niigata Prefecture