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Pronunciation: [pɹˈiːfɛkt] (IPA)

A prefect is an individual appointed to supervise a group or activity, with specific responsibilities and authority. Synonyms for the word "prefect" include overseer, administrator, manager, supervisor, leader, chief, coordinator, director, head, superintendent, and controller. These words all imply authority and control over something or someone. A prefect can be a student in charge of a class, a police officer responsible for a specific area, or a manager of a business. Regardless of the context, the word "prefect" refers to a person who has been entrusted with a certain degree of responsibility and leadership, making these synonyms all appropriate substitutes for the term.

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Usage examples for Prefect

There is a tablet of the third century to Mithra in that camp, dedicated by a prefect of the 3rd Legion, who was born at Carnuntum.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Leave was most obligingly granted, and we received every attention from the prefect and his lady; but we could find no traces of the objects of our search.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
Let the prefect buy a little plot of ground and build a house upon it, and give it to an old soldier, upon condition that he shall constantly reside in it with his family.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner

Famous quotes with Prefect

  • It is not right for any country, for any president, for any prime minister to act as a prefect on the affairs of Zimbabwe.
    Levy Mwanawsa
  • It’s six months since I did the interview with Jeremy Paxman that inspired this book, and British media today is awash with halfhearted condemnations of my observation that voting is pointless and my admission that I have never voted. My assertion that other people oughtn’t vote either was born of the same instinctive rejection of the mantle of appointed social prefect that prevents me from telling teenagers to “Just Say No” to drugs. I cannot confine my patronage to the circuitry of their minuscule wisdom. “People died so you’d have the right to vote.” No, they did not; they died for freedom. In the case where freedom was explicitly attached to the symbol of democratic rights, like female suffrage, I don’t imagine they’d’ve been so willing if they’d known how tokenistic voting was to become. Note too these martyrs did not achieve their ends by participating in a hollow, predefined ritual, the infertile dry hump of gestural democracy; they did it by direct action. Emily Davison, the hero of women’s suffrage, hurled herself in front of the king’s horses; she defied the tyranny that oppressed her and broke the boundaries that contained her. I imagine too that this woman would have had the rebellious perspicacity to understand that the system she was opposing would adjust to incorporate the female vote and deftly render it irrelevant. This woman, who left her job as a teacher to dedicate her life to activism, was imprisoned nine times. She used methods as severe and diverse as arson and hunger-striking to protest and at the time of her death would have been regarded as a terrorist.
    Russell Brand
  • It was Sophie [Taeuber] who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.
    Jean Arp

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