Word of the Week #10

Word:
prefecture (pree-fek-cher)

Original Sentence:
“However, this also caused people to form clubs based upon prefectures from which the people immigrated.”

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Definitions:
–noun

1. The district administered or governed by a prefect.

2. The office or authority of a prefect.

3. The residence or housing of a prefect.

(Prefect: a superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.)

New Sentence:

Around the same time that Japanese-Americans were being incarcerated in internment camps on the west coast of the United States, prefectures established for the Jewish population in Europe were housing the millions bound for death during World War II.

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