Usually means: School-appointed student leadership and discipline.
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  1. prefects: Merriam-Webster
  2. prefects: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prefects: Vocabulary.com
  4. Prefect's, Prefects, prefect's, prefects: Wordnik
  5. prefects: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prefects: Wiktionary
  7. prefects: Dictionary.com
  8. The Prefects: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (prefect)

noun:  (historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
noun:  The head of a department in France.
noun:  The head of a county in Albania or Romania.
noun:  The head of a prefecture in Japan.
noun:  (British) A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
noun:  A commander.
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