Bureau

Definition of Bureau

Bu´reau
n.1.Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
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.
4.A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
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 reëstablished in Brussels in 1870.

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agency, bailiwick, chest of drawers, chiffonier, commissariat, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, desk, dresser, ministry, municipality, secretariat, section, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shrievalty, subdivision
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