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bureau
Found in thesaurus: administrative unit, administrative body, piece of furniture, furniture, article of furniture
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bureau
n.
writing desk; dresser; office
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Bureau
Bureau ( ) may refer to:
- Public administration offices of various kinds
- Government agencies of various kinds
- News bureau, an office for gathering or distributing news, generally for a given geographical location
- Desk, a piece of furniture, typically a table used for office work
- Chest of drawers, a piece of furniture that has multiple, stacked, parallel drawers
- Bureau (European Parliament), the administrative organ of the Parliament of the European Union
- The Bureau, English New Wave soul music group
- Bureau County, Illinois
- Le Bureau, a French television series
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, the leading internal law enforcement agency in the United States
- Service bureau, a company which provides business services for a fee
- Citizens Advice Bureau, a network of independent UK charities that give free, confidential help to people for money, legal, consumer and other problems
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bureau
Noun
1. an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
(synonym) agency, federal agency, government agency, office, authority
(hypernym) administrative unit, administrative body
(hyponym) Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL
2. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
(synonym) chest of drawers, chest, dresser
(hypernym) furniture, piece of furniture, article of furniture
(hyponym) chiffonier, commode
(part-meronym) drawer
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bureau
nm.
office, bureau, chamber; desk, agency; lodge; study; desktop, screen area from which one opens all of the application windows (Computers)
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bureau (het)
n.
bureau, office; writing desk
