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Bureau

Bureau Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Bureau?
[n] furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
[n] an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bureau: agency | authority | chest | chest of drawers | dresser | federal agency | government agency | office Related Terms | Find terms related to Bureau: agency | bailiwick | chest | chest of drawers | chiffonier | commissariat | constablery | constablewick | constabulary | department | desk | division | dresser | ministry | municipality | office | secretariat | section | sheriffalty | sheriffwick | shrievalty | subdivision See Also | administrative body | administrative unit | AEC | article of furniture | Atomic Energy Commission | Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms | Bureau of Customs | Bureau of Engraving and Printing | Bureau of the Census | Census Bureau | Center for Disease Control | central bank | Central Intelligence Agency | chiffonier | child welfare agency | child welfare service | CIA | commode | Comptroller of the Currency | drawer | Environmental Protection Agency | EPA | executive agency | FBI | FDA | Federal Bureau of Investigation | Federal Housing Administration | FHA | Food and Drug Administration | Foreign Service | furniture | highboy | ICC | Inland Revenue | Internal Revenue Service | Interstate Commerce Commission | IR | IRS | local authority | Manhattan Project | NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | National Labor Relations Board | National Park Service | National Weather Service | NRC | NRLB | Nuclear Regulatory Commission | Occupational Safety and Health Administration | Ordnance Survey | organ | OSHA | patent office | piece of furniture | redevelopment authority | regulatory agency | regulatory authority | SEC | secret service | Securities and Exchange Commission | Selective Service | Selective Service System | shelf | Social Security Administration | tallboy | UN agency | United Nations agency | weather bureau Bureau In Webster's Dictionary \Bu"reau\, n.; pl. E. {Bureaus}, F. {Bureaux}. [F. bureau
a writing table, desk, office, OF., drugget, with which a
writing table was often covered, equiv. to F. bure, and fr.
OF. buire dark brown, the stuff being named from its color,
fr. L. burrus red, fr. Gr. ? flame-colored, prob. fr. ? fire.
See {Fire}, n., and cf. {Borel}, n.]
1. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for
papers. --Swift.
2. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where
business requiring writing is transacted.
3. 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.
Note: On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in
most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the
Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England
and America, the term is confined to inferior and
subordinate departments; as, the ``Pension Bureau,'' a
subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [Obs.]
In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the
trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an
ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.]
{Bureau system}. See {Bureaucracy}.
{Bureau Veritas}, 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 re["e]stablished in Brussels in
1870.
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