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Office; writing desk
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bureau
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "desk with drawers, writing desk," from French bureau "office; desk, writing table," originally "cloth covering for a desk," from burel "coarse woolen cloth" (as a cover for writing desks), Old French diminutive of bure "dark brown cloth," which ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Usage examples of bureau.
Statistics from the Radio Advertising Bureau indicate that more than a half-billion radios are in use in our country.
Very pleasing specimens of ancient Peruvian feather work are recovered from graves at Ancon and elsewhere, and the method of inserting the feathers is illustrated in the Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.
I want to give you a heads up that the Bureau will be awarding you the Shield of Bravery for the job you did in Nevada.
Had he not in his bureau a manuscript treatise on the relations of art and morals which, when he re-read it, astounded him by its acumen and wit, and a manuscript poem on the doings of Cardinal Beatoun which he could not honestly deem inferior to the belauded verse of Mr Walter Scott!
The ugly living room, the bedrooms stuffed with bureaus and chairs and blankets and pillows, an aide leaning out of the nursing station talking to Polly, the white chalk in its dish below the blackboard waiting for us to sign ourselves in: home again.
The remarkable story of FDNY Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca was drawn from dozens of interviews with his brother firefighters in Rescue One, the marshals of the Bureau of Fire Investigation, and personnel with whom he worked as a U.
Despite the fact that he had a Top Secret security clearance as a warrant officer in a high-level Army Reserve intelligence unit, Bucca was repeatedly frozen out by members of the NYPD-FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force, one of the key Bureau units hunting Yousef.
INTO THE ABYSS On the day after the Trade Center bombing, as he moved across the fractured B-l level below the Towers, Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca had no idea that the area would soon be off-limits to the Bureau of Fire Investigation.
Battle of the Badges Whatever isolation Nancy Floyd was feeling on the inside of the Bureau, Ronnie Bucca was feeling doubly frustrated on the outside.
Eve Bucca began fighting another war - a battle with the city of New York to keep the Bureau of Fire Investigation from being decimated by proposed budget cuts.
Winifred, whom he noticed next to the furniture, was sitting at her Buhl bureau with a letter in her hand.
Karen said, looking right at Burdon, the dude Bureau man in his neat gray suit, pale blue shirt and necktie.
Once more, she was Miss Capel, whose name was only to familiar to the Employment Bureau and not a stranded nonentity.
It was an unexpected gathering of newspeople as Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, and two CNN reporters soon were ushered in to join them, denied the chance to get the story out to their bureaus.
De Coude himself escorted Tarzan to the office of General Rochere, the chief of the bureau to which Tarzan would be attached if he accepted the position.