prefect

(古罗马的)行政长官; 高级文武官员

(法国的)省长

(日本的)县知事

(英国某些公立学校、美国某些私立学校负责维持秩序的)班长, 级长

prefect

(in France, Italy, etc) the chief administrative officer in a department

(in France, etc) the head of a police force

a schoolchild appointed to a position of limited power over his fellows

(in ancient Rome) any of several magistrates or military commanders

Also called: prefect apostolic an official having jurisdiction over a missionary district that has no ordinary

one of two senior masters in a Jesuit school or college (the prefect of studies and the prefect of discipline or first prefect)

a cardinal in charge of a congregation of the Curia

Also (for senses 4--7) praefect