Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An assistant or deputy prefect; specifically, in France, an official charged with the administration of an arron-dissement under the immediate authority of the prefect of the department.
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- noun The
executive of asubprefecture .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I will venture to say that when the subprefect was a little boy, and was taken for the first time to the play, he was not half as much pleased as he was now at the job in prospect for him at the gambling-house!
Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) 1839-1908 [Contributor] Ouida 1873
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"subprefect," and several picked men among his subordinates, happened to be up, maturing, I believe, some scheme for discovering the perpetrator of a mysterious murder which all Paris was talking of just then.
Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) 1839-1908 [Contributor] Ouida 1873
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In summer 1726, O'rtai arrested the native subprefect (tu zhizhou) of Zhanyi and the native prefect of Zhenyuan, confiscated their farms and assets, and exiled them to Jiangnan. 134 Under enormous state pressure, Dao Liandou, commissioner (zhangguan) of Zheledian, "voluntarily" handed over his seal and pleaded for direct administration. 135 At the same time, O'rtai dispatched troops to Dongchuan, thus abolishing native chief (tumu) who had controlled native forces there.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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In 1726, the native chieftain of Zhenyuan prefecture was replaced with Liu Hongdu, who was assigned as subprefect (tongzhi) in charge of the prefecture.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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The Ministry of Personnel turned it down, but the emperor himself approved it. 113 Ningzhou (department) was initially under direct administration, however, a native chieftain bribed Liu Jin, the influential eunuch, and a native subprefect was resumed that eventually would be abolished in 1522.114
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Duan Bao was assigned as native subprefect (tu zhizhou) of Yunlong Department. back
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Puli subprefect Hiyama Tetsusaburo was the first prominent Japanese official to marry into an Aborigine polity.
Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Turton 2008
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"There is almost no doubt that the kidnapped subprefect is among them and that the sixth person whose body has not been found is also deceased," said the official.
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Juárez became minister of justice and Díaz, only twenty-five, was named subprefect of the town of Ixtlán in Nayarit.
Democrat to autocrat: The transformation of Porfirio Diaz 1997
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Juárez became minister of justice and Díaz, only twenty-five, was named subprefect of the town of Ixtlán in Nayarit.
Democrat to autocrat: The transformation of Porfirio Diaz 1997
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