Crossword clues for bureau
bureau
- Dandy around university runs business department
- Furniture item
- Part of FBI
- Government department
- Part of a bedroom set
- Article of furniture
- Government agency
- FBI center?
- FBI center
- Where you found your underwear
- The middle of the FBI?
- The "B" of F.B.I
- Port Credit _______
- Office furniture piece
- Newspaper's office
- News center
- Kind of crat
- It may hold one's unmentionables
- Government office
- FBI word
- FBI member?
- FBI division?
- Bedroom set staple
- Chiffonier
- F.B.I. center
- News office
- 42-Down division
- Department division
- Chest of drawers
- An administrative unit of government
- Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
- Dresser's kin
- Bedroom piece
- Office; writing desk
- Office sweetheart seen around outskirts of Uttoxeter
- Office admirer going round old city
- Writing desk; office
- Writing desk with drawers
- Where one might write saying you are in lover's embrace
- Foreign Office having back to wall
- You are caught punching young man in office
- You are caught entering young man's office
- Boyfriend outside university runs office
- Heard you are invested in escort agency
- Desk; office
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bureau \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.]
Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
--Swift.The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
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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.
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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.
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 is perhaps either from Latin burrus "red," or from Late Latin burra "wool, shaggy garment." Offices being full of such desks, the meaning expanded 1720 to "division of a government." Meaning "chest of drawers" is from 1770, said to be American English but early in British use.
Wiktionary
n. 1 office. 2 desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath. 3 (context US English) chest of drawers#English for clothes.
WordNet
n. an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn: agency, federal agency, government agency, office, authority]
furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: chest of drawers, chest, dresser]
[also: bureaux (pl)]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 15331
Land area (2000): 868.564029 sq. miles (2249.570413 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.735354 sq. miles (12.264509 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 873.299383 sq. miles (2261.834922 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.386420 N, 89.477767 W
Headwords:
Bureau, IL
Bureau County
Bureau County, IL
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 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
Bureau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- André Bureau (born 1935), Canadian lawyer and communications executive
- Jacques Bureau (1860–1933), Canadian politician
- Jean Bureau (c. 1390 – 1463) French artillery commander at the end of the hundred years war
- Gaspard Bureau ( died 1469) French artillery officer at the end of the hundred years war, and brother of Jean
- Louis Édouard Bureau (1830–1918), French physician and botanist
- Marc Bureau (ice hockey) (born 1966), Canadian ice hockey player
- Marc Bureau (politician) (born 1955), Canadian politician; mayor of Gatineau
- Stéphan Bureau (born 1964), Canadian television journalist
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.