Bureau

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  • noun. A chest of drawers, especially a dresser for holding clothes.
  • noun. A writing desk or writing table with drawers.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A government department or a subdivision of a department.
  • noun. An office, usually of a large organization, that is responsible for a specific duty.
  • noun. A business that offers information of a specified kind.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A division of the United States Department of Commerce and Labor, charged with a general superintendence of many matters connected with the merchant marine.
  • noun. A desk or writing-table with drawers for papers; an escritoire.
  • noun. A chest of drawers for holding clothes and other articles.
  • noun. An office or place where business is transacted.
  • noun. A department of government for the transaction of public business.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
  • noun. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
  • noun. Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
  • noun. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
  • noun. See Bureaucracy.
  • noun. an institution, in the interest of maritime underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed to Paris in 1830, and reëstablished in Brussels in 1870.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Office.
  • noun. Desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
  • noun. Chest of drawers for clothes.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an administrative unit of government
  • noun. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
  • Word Usage
    "Because the FBI has been finding it difficult to wiretap in some cases, the bureau is also considering making the carriers pay for eavesdropping when the tapping gets complicated."
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