prefecturaladj.
/prᵻˈfɛktʃ(ə)rəl/, /prᵻˈfɛktʃ(ə)rl̩/, U.S. /priˈfɛk(t)ʃ(ə)rəl/ Of or relating to a prefecture (prefecture n. 2) or its administration. prefectural city (also town) n. the administrative centre of a prefecture.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [adjective] > of territory under prefect
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1811 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 32 62 There is a prefectural nursery at Colmar.
1866 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 11 264 Hankow is, properly speaking, a suburb of the prefectural city of Hanyang.
1882 Missionary Herald (Cambridge, Mass.) Sept. 345 The prefectural cities Ta Tung and Sho P'ing.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 5/2 Yüan Shih-K'ai has received permission to take up his residence..in the first-class or prefectural city of Wei-hwei Fu.
1931 Accounting Rev. 6 258 In order to obtain this personality, the association must register its statutes, name, object, and officers with the local prefectural authority [in France].
1964 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 26 151/2 Okayama is the prefectural capital of Okayama Prefecture.
1995 Daily Tel. 28 Apr. 13/3 What happened in Maraba, 20 miles from the prefectural capital of Butare, is repeated many times throughout the hilly countryside.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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