bureau

Speech parts

1. bureau - Noun

2. Bureau - Proper noun

Meaning

Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.

The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.

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.

A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

office authority agency dresser chest of drawers commission department service section division board branch cabinet desk sideboard
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Antonyms

home crew domestic discharge unification tenement
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Hypernyms

furniture piece of furniture article of furniture administrative body administrative unit

Hyponyms

army navy air force IRS NIH NPC

Related terms

bureaucracy bureaucratic bureaucrat bureau de change burel bureaugamy

Phrases with the word

International Time Bureau bureau of funerals labor bureau private bureau bureau meeting meeting of the bureau

Derivatives

bureaus bureaux

Examples

the Central Intelligence Agency Source: Internet

the Census Bureau Source: Internet

Office of Management and Budget Source: Internet

Tennessee Valley Authority Source: Internet

A 30-year-old federal inmate died of COVID-19 on Tuesday, four weeks after giving birth while she was on a ventilator, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Source: Internet

1980s In May 1981, the U.S. government closed the Libyan "people's bureau" (embassy) in Washington, D.C. and expelled the Libyan staff in response their conduct generally violating internationally accepted standards of diplomatic behavior. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Burdwan Burdwan division bure Bureau County bureau de change bureau director