prefecture
pree fek cher
- n the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire)
- n the office of prefect
- While the Leaf will be built first at Nissan's Oppama plant in Kanazawa prefecture, production is also planned at the company's Smyrna, Tenn.
- The greasy feast was one of 704 similar lunches the board has provided to 339 schools in the prefecture since January 2005.
- September heralds the six-month dolphin-hunting season in Taiji, a small seaside town in Japan's southwestern Wakayama prefecture.