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bureau
[ byoor-oh ]
noun
- a chest of drawers, often with a mirror at the top.
- a division of a government department or an independent administrative unit.
- an office for collecting or distributing news or information, coordinating work, or performing specified services; agency:
a travel bureau; a news bureau.
- Chiefly British. a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
bureau
/ ˈbjʊərəʊ /
noun
- a writing desk with pigeonholes, drawers, etc, against which the writing surface can be closed when not in use
- a chest of drawers
- an office or agency, esp one providing services for the public
- a government department
- a branch of a government department
Other Words From
- subbureau noun plural subbureaus subbureaux
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of bureau1
Example Sentences
The Bureau keeps publicly condemning Pyongyang for the Sony hack.
Back at police headquarters, Chief of Police Michael Floore Sr. ran out of the detective bureau, barking into a walkie talkie.
She had a simple answer to my inquiry about the calls that were never returned—from her or anyone else in the detective bureau.
On the second floor I rang a buzzer at the door of the detective bureau.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said that the bureau fully complies with U.S. policy as it relates to ransom payments.
One day Aristide, with an unexpected franc or two in his pocket, stopped in front of a bureau de tabac.
It has two hundred brethren, and every year twelve of these are chosen, who are called “brethren of the bureau of accounts.”
In one of ole Miss's bureau drawers was a large plain linen handkerchief which was never used.
At the bureau he ordered a couple of packs of cards and a supply of drinks and went to his palatial room on the ground floor.
Every team in Rosewater was bespoken for the distinguished occasion, and the reports of the weather bureau were consulted daily.
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