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  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.]
     1. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for
        papers. --Swift.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where
        business requiring writing is transacted.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an
        ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

  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.]
     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.

  bureau
       n 1: 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]
       2: furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: chest of
          drawers, chest, dresser]
       [also: bureaux (pl)]

  bureau
     Γαλλικά n.
     το γραφείο
     Ολλανδικά n.
     το γραφείο (το δωμάτιο)

  bureau
     Dutch n.
     1 (lb nl furniture) desk (from 18th c.)
     2 (lb nl building) office, office building (from late 18th c.)
  (especially office buildings for writing and publishing journalism and
  literature, or the police station as a building)
     3 (lb nl non-commercial) agency (government organisation, such as a
  police station: "politiebureau"; a scientific or humanities
  research institute: "onderzoeksbureau"; political party think
  tank: "wetenschappelijk bureau")
     4 (lb nl commercial) company (in design, engineering, journalism,
  communications, marketing, market/opinion research), agency (doing
  business for another, such as an advertising agency:
  "reclamebureau"; a news agency: "persbureau")
     French n.
     1 desk
     2 office (room)
     3 ticket office
     4 the staff of an office
     5 office; an administrative unit
     6 (lb fr obsolete) frieze (coarse woolen cloth)
     7 (lb fr computing GUI) desktop (gl: on-screen background)

  Bureau
     n.
     (surname en from=French).
     Translingual n.
     A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Louis Édouard
  Bureau (1830-1918).

  bureau
     n.
     An administrative unit of government; office.

  Bureau
     n.
     (surname en from=French).

  bureau
     Dutch n.
     1 (lb nl furniture) desk (from 18th c.)
     2 (lb nl building) office, office building (from late 18th c.)
  (especially office buildings for writing and publishing journalism and
  literature, or the police station as a building)
     3 (lb nl non-commercial) agency (government organisation, such as a
  police station: "politiebureau"; a scientific or humanities
  research institute: "onderzoeksbureau"; political party think
  tank: "wetenschappelijk bureau")
     4 (lb nl commercial) company (in design, engineering, journalism,
  communications, marketing, market/opinion research), agency (doing
  business for another, such as an advertising agency:
  "reclamebureau"; a news agency: "persbureau")
     French n.
     1 desk
     2 office (room)
     3 ticket office
     4 the staff of an office
     5 office; an administrative unit
     6 (lb fr obsolete) frieze (coarse woolen cloth)
     7 (lb fr computing GUI) desktop (gl: on-screen background)

  Bureau
     n.
     (surname en from=French).
     Translingual n.
     A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Louis Édouard
  Bureau (1830-1918).

  bureau
     Dutch n.
     1 (lb nl furniture) desk (from 18th c.)
     2 (lb nl building) office, office building (from late 18th c.)
  (especially office buildings for writing and publishing journalism and
  literature, or the police station as a building)
     3 (lb nl non-commercial) agency (government organisation, such as a
  police station: "politiebureau"; a scientific or humanities
  research institute: "onderzoeksbureau"; political party think
  tank: "wetenschappelijk bureau")
     4 (lb nl commercial) company (in design, engineering, journalism,
  communications, marketing, market/opinion research), agency (doing
  business for another, such as an advertising agency:
  "reclamebureau"; a news agency: "persbureau")
     French n.
     1 desk
     2 office (room)
     3 ticket office
     4 the staff of an office
     5 office; an administrative unit
     6 (lb fr obsolete) frieze (coarse woolen cloth)
     7 (lb fr computing GUI) desktop (gl: on-screen background)

  Bureau
     n.
     (surname en from=French).
     Translingual n.
     A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Louis Édouard
  Bureau (1830-1918).

  bureau
     Ranska n.
     1 toimisto
     2 työhuone
     3 kirjoituslipasto; kirjoituspöytä; työpöytä

  bureau
     n.
     ''variant av'' byrå

  bureau
     n.
     ''variant av'' byrå

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/
  buro, kantoor

  Bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/
  المكتب

  bureau //ˈbjʊɹ.oʊ// //ˈbjʊɹ.ə// //ˈbjʊɹ.əʊ// 
  1. бюро́, писа́лище
  desk
  2. бюро́, канто́ра
  office (room)
  3. канто́ра, канцела́рия, о́фис
  unit of governance, office

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/ 
  úřad

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/ 
  kancelář

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/
  sekretář

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/
  Büro , Amt 
   see: bureaus
  

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/
   [Am.] Kommode 
     Synonyms: chest of drawers, dresser
  
   see: chests of drawers, dressers
  

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/
  Sekretär 
           Note: Schreibschrank
     Synonym: secretary
  

  bureau //ˈbjʊɹ.oʊ// //ˈbjʊɹ.ə// //ˈbjʊɹ.əʊ// 
  1. lipasto
  chest of drawers for clothes
  2. kirjoituspöytä, työpöytä
  desk
  3. toimisto, virasto
  office (room)

  bureau /bjeərou/
  bureau

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/ 
  1. लिखने~की~मेज़, दफ़्तर, विभाग
        "In the corner was a kept a bureau of teakwood."

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/
  biro, nadleštvo, odjeljenje, pisaći sto, poslovnica

  bureau //ˈbjʊɹ.oʊ// //ˈbjʊɹ.ə// //ˈbjʊɹ.əʊ// 
  biro
  office (room)

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/
  ufficio

  bureau //ˈbjʊɹ.oʊ// //ˈbjʊɹ.ə// //ˈbjʊɹ.əʊ// 
  事務所, オフィス, 事務室
  office (room)

  bureau /ˈbjʊərəʊ/ 
   1.  [BR]  sekretarzyk
   2.  [US]  komoda
   3.  [US]  biuro, urząd
   4.  filia

  bureau /bjeərou/
  escritório, repartição

  bureau /bjeərou/
  oficina

  bureau /bjeərou/
  канцеларија

  bureau //ˈbjʊɹ.oʊ// //ˈbjʊɹ.ə// //ˈbjʊɹ.əʊ// 
  byrå 2.
  office (room)
   3.
  chest of drawers for clothes

  bureau /bjˈʊəɹəʊ/
  1. büro, yazıhane, acente, daire, şube
  2. çekmece, çekmeceli dolap
  3. ing. yazı masası, yazıhane.

  bureau /byʁˈo/
  burev (burevioù /byʁvjˈu/)

   (agence) bureau /byʁˈo/
  gwazva (gwazvaoù /ɡwazvaˈu/)

   (meuble) bureau /byʁˈo/
  taol-skrivañ (taolioù-skrivañ /taoljˈuskʁivˈaɲ/)

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  бюро
  Établissement ou succursale où des employés effectuent un travail plutôt intellectuel

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  1. Ausschuss, Kommission
  Certain nombre de personnes tirées d’une assemblée pour s’occuper spécialement d’une ou de plusieurs affaires dont elles doivent ensuite rendre compte à l’assemblée générale
  2. Belegschaft, Büro, Bürobelegschaft
  L'ensemble des employés eux-mêmes qui travaillent dans un bureau
  3. Schalter
  Lieu où se distribuent les billets d’entrée pour un spectacle
  4. Schreibtisch, Sekretär
  Meuble à tiroirs et à tablettes où l’on enferme des papiers et sur lequel on écrit
  5. Vorstand
  Réunion du président, des vice-présidents, des secrétaires et aussi, dans certains cas, du trésorier, en parlant des assemblées législatives ou électorales..
  6. Desktop
  Surface de travail des environnements graphiques, permettant d’accéder aux différentes ressources de l'appareil (logiciels, fichiers, périphériques...)
  7. Schreibtisch
  Table destinée au travail
  8. Büro, Dienstraum
  Tout endroit où travaillent habituellement des employés, des commis, des gens d’affaires, etc
  9. Büro, Kontor
  Établissement ou succursale où des employés effectuent un travail plutôt intellectuel
  10. Amt, Amtsstube, Büro
  Établissements qui dépendent, la plupart, de l’administration publique, qui sont destinés à quelque service public
  11. Wollstoff
  Étoffe de bure

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  γραφείο 2.
  Table destinée au travail
   3.
  Établissement ou succursale où des employés effectuent un travail plutôt intellectuel

  bureau /byʀo/ 
  bureau, office

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  toimisto
  Établissement ou succursale où des employés effectuent un travail plutôt intellectuel

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  ufficio, scrivania, uffizio, officio, offizio, oficio

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  munus

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  taryba
  Réunion du président, des vice-présidents, des secrétaires et aussi, dans certains cas, du trésorier, en parlant des assemblées législatives ou électorales..

  bureau /byro/
  1. kantoor
  2. bureau, bureel

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  biuro, urząd
  Établissement ou succursale où des employés effectuent un travail plutôt intellectuel

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  1. repartição, escritório
  2. escrivaninha
  Table destinée au travail
  3. escritório
  Établissement ou succursale où des employés effectuent un travail plutôt intellectuel

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  1. офис, бюро
  2. рабочий стол
  Table destinée au travail
  3. бюро, офис
  Établissement ou succursale où des employés effectuent un travail plutôt intellectuel

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  1. oficina, escritorio
  2. despacho, escritorio
  Table destinée au travail

  bureau /by.ʁo/ 
  1. styre
  Réunion du président, des vice-présidents, des secrétaires et aussi, dans certains cas, du trésorier, en parlant des assemblées législatives ou électorales..
  2. kontor, byrå
  Établissement ou succursale où des employés effectuent un travail plutôt intellectuel

  bureau /byʁˈo/ 
  büro, ofis

  bureau /byrˈoː/ 
  бюро 2.
  1. een werkmeubel voor administratief- en studiewerk
   3.
  2. een (politie)kantoor

  bureau /byro/
  Amt , Büro

  bureau /byrˈoː/ 
  Γραφείο
  1. een werkmeubel voor administratief- en studiewerk

  bureau /byro/
  1. bureau, office
  2. desk, writingdesk, writing‐desk

  bureau /byrˈoː/ 
  1. kirjoituspöytä, työpöytä
  1. een werkmeubel voor administratief- en studiewerk
  2. konttori, toimisto, virasto, liikehuoneisto, toimipaikka
  2. een (politie)kantoor

  bureau /byro/
  bureau

  bureau //byˈro// 
  1.  [1. een werkmeubel voor administratief- en studiewerk] scrivania
  2.  [2. een (politie)kantoor] ufficio

  bureau /byrˈoː/ 
  1. mensa scriptoria
  1. een werkmeubel voor administratief- en studiewerk
  2. munus
  2. een (politie)kantoor

  bureau /byrˈoː/ 
  biuras
  2. een (politie)kantoor

  bureau /byrˈoː/ 
  1. biurko
  1. een werkmeubel voor administratief- en studiewerk
  2. biuro
  2. een (politie)kantoor

  bureau /byrˈoː/ 
  escritório
  2. een (politie)kantoor

  bureau /byrˈoː/ 
  контора
  2. een (politie)kantoor

  bureau /byrˈoː/ 
  1. escritorio
  1. een werkmeubel voor administratief- en studiewerk
  2. oficina, despacho
  2. een (politie)kantoor

  bureau /byrˈoː/ 
  1. skrivbord
  1. een werkmeubel voor administratief- en studiewerk
  2. kontor
  2. een (politie)kantoor

  Bureau
  Bureau

  
/ˈbjʊɹoʊ/

  
/byʁo/

  BUREAU. A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is 
  used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been 
  borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the 
  secretary of state. Vide Merl. Repert. h. t. 
  
  

  Bureau -- U.S. County in Illinois
     Population (2000):    35503
     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
      Bureau, IL
      Bureau County
      Bureau County, IL
  

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

  n. 局,办公处;

     n. 局,办公处