subprefecture
nounEtymology From sub- + prefecture.
1
An administrative division of a country below prefecture.
- Captain Camara reacted angrily to these statements, telling reporters Monday that “Guinea is not a subprefecture, is not a neighborhood in France.”2009 October 7, Adam Nossiter, “U.S. Condemns Mass Killings and Rape in Guinea”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- subprefectural