What does Bureau mean?
Definitions for Bureau
ˈbyʊər oʊ; ˈbyʊər oʊzbu·reau
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Bureau.
Princeton's WordNet
agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authoritynoun
an administrative unit of government
"the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
chest of drawers, chest, bureau, dressernoun
furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
Wiktionary
bureaunoun
Office.
bureaunoun
Desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
bureaunoun
Chest of drawers for clothes.
Etymology: bureau ‘desk’, earlier ‘coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize’, from Old French burel ‘woolen cloth’, diminutive of *bure (cf. Middle French bure ‘coarse woolen cloth’, French bourre ‘hair, fluff’), from Late Latin burra ‘wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric’; akin to Ancient Greek ‘shabby garment’.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Bureaunoun
A chest of drawers. It is pronounced as if it were spelt buro.
Etymology: bureau, Fr.
For not the desk with silver nails,
Nor bureau of expence,
Nor standish well japan’d, avails
To writing of good sense. Jonathan Swift.
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bureau
A bureau is a department or subdivision of a larger organization, institution, or government, responsible for managing and organizing a certain area of activity. It can also refer to a chest of drawers or writing desk, typically with a mirror attached.
Webster Dictionary
Bureaunoun
originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers
Bureaunoun
the place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted
Bureaunoun
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
Bureaunoun
a chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bureau
būr′ō, n. a writing-table or chest of drawers: a room or office where such a table is used: a department for the transacting of public business:—pl. Bureaux (būr′ō), Bureaus (būr′ōz). [Fr. bureau—O. Fr. burel, russet cloth—L. burrus, red.]
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Bureau
a name given to a department of public administration, hence bureaucracy, a name for government by bureaux.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
bureau
A long-standing functional organization, with a supporting staff designed to perform a specific function or activity within a joint force commander
Etymology and Origins
Bureau
French for a writing-desk, from buro, a drugget, with which it was invariably covered.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BUREAU
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau is ranked #28909 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Bureau surname appeared 822 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bureau.
83.3% or 685 total occurrences were White.
11.4% or 94 total occurrences were Black.
1.8% or 15 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.7% or 14 total occurrences were Asian.
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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Bureau' in Nouns Frequency: #1950
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Bureau in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Bureau in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of Bureau in a Sentence
We have experts at Census Bureau that are now beginning the process of looking at methodologies, that process is just beginning. The presidential memoranda just came out last week.
The point we have made is that even with the creation of this new bureau, even with the creation of the new cyber envoy, these issues are going to be pervasive across State Department, across the government. So it's not going to be squarely defined -- solely defined to one bureau, to one special envoy -- but we do see tremendous value in ensuring that we have a bureau that is focused on these issues, squarely on some of the most important elements of these issues.
Together with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, investigators in my office have looked into hundreds of allegations of voter fraud since the November 2020 election but have found nothing that puts the overall integrity of Georgia’s elections in doubt or anything even close to putting the election results in question, thankfully, many conservatives recognize that we had a free and fair election but came up short, and that the people of Georgia are better off if we look forward rather than relitigating the past.
It is obvious from where I sit that we do not have adequate resources deployed on our streets in a proactive way, and so I will fight for additional resources for the police bureau, I will fight for more police officers and I will fight for more tools and whatever support the police bureau needs to get its job done.
The Bureau of Meteorology and others have predicted another extremely dangerous fire season on the east coast and also in southwestern Australia, if that explodes again, it's going to be very damaging economically and also psychologically. I think people are scarcely recovering from the bushfires last year and early this year. So when you're looking at these regions now, you can see the damage has not been undone.
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- مكتبArabic
- писа́лище, бюро́, канто́раBulgarian
- burevBreton
- kancelář, úřadCzech
- Kommode, Büro, Schreibtisch, SekretärGerman
- oficina, escritorio, cómodaSpanish
- دفترPersian
- työpöytä, kirjoituspöytä, toimisto, lipasto, virastoFinnish
- skrivstovaFaroese
- bureau, secrétaire, chiffonnier, agence, commodeFrench
- לשכה, שולחןHebrew
- दफ़तर, ऑफ़िसHindi
- szekreterHungarian
- բյուրո, գրասենյակ, գրասեղանArmenian
- comò, cassettone, ufficio, scrittoio, scrivaniaItalian
- 事務所, 事務室, オフィスJapanese
- ბიურო, ოფისიGeorgian
- 사무소, 사무실Korean
- канцела́ријаMacedonian
- biroMalay
- skrivanija, uffiċċju, buròMaltese
- sekretær, kommode, skatollNorwegian
- kantoor, bureel, kledingkast, agentschap, kast, bureauDutch
- sekretær, kommode, skatollNorwegian Nynorsk
- byråNorwegian
- biuro, biurka, biura, biurkoPolish
- escrivaninha, birô, cômodas, mesa, cômoda, escritórioPortuguese
- birouRomanian
- пи́сьменный стол, канцеля́рия, комо́д, бюро́, шифонье́р, бю́ро, конто́ра, конто́рка, о́фис, секрете́рRussian
- kanceláriaSlovak
- byråSwedish
- kawanihanTagalog
- şifonyer, büroTurkish
- văn phòng, giúp đỡVietnamese
- 局Chinese
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