prefecture

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Synonyms: prefectural, projecture, pretexture, prefectures, prefixture

Antonyms: prefectural, projecture, pretexture, prefectures, prefixture

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Noun

1. The [[office]] or [[position]] of a [[prefect]].
2. The [[jurisdiction]] of a [[prefect]]; the [[region]] [[administer]]ed by a [[prefect]], [[especially]] as a [[translation]] of [[certain]] [[French]], [[Chinese]], and [[Japanese]] [[administrative]] [[division]]s.

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