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means A student (or official) appointed to a position of authority to supervise and enforce rules among their peers.

from From Latin praefectus, 'one placed in charge' — from prae- ('before') plus facere ('to make/do'), via praeficere, 'to set in authority over.' The Romans used it for a wide range of appointed officials, from city governors to military commanders. The word later settled into schools and administrative systems across Europe, where it shrank in scope but not in attitude — the empire's gone, but the clipboard remains.