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Bureau   /bjˈʊroʊ/   Listen
Bureau

noun
(pl. E. bureaus, F. bureaux)
1.
An administrative unit of government.  Synonyms: agency, authority, federal agency, government agency, office.  "The Census Bureau" , "Office of Management and Budget" , "Tennessee Valley Authority"
2.
Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes.  Synonyms: chest, chest of drawers, dresser.



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"Bureau" Quotes from Famous Books



... of 1875, under the auspices of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, in Boston, Mr. Barnum found time to deliver some thirty times, a lecture on "The World and How to Live in It," going as far east as Thomaston, Maine, and west to Leavenworth, Kansas. When the tour was finished ...
— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton

... your bed. Here's your 'burry,'" pointing to a bureau with a bookcase on the top. He threw open the next door. "This is Linforth's room. By the way, you speak English ...
— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason

... a moment motionless, breathing loud, as if it were a joy to breathe free from restraint; and then, lifting the light, and gliding to the adjoining room, she unlocked a bureau in the corner, and bent over a small casket, which she ...
— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... know how I ever came to do it, Scarborough. Oh, I'm a dog, a dog! When I started to come here my mother took me up to her bedroom and opened the drawer of her bureau and took out a savings-bank book—it had a credit of twelve hundred dollars. 'Do you see that?' she said. 'When you were born I began to put by as soon as I was able—every cent I could from the butter and the eggs—to educate my boy. And now ...
— The Cost • David Graham Phillips

... decided to take short order with the pernicious literature of the Pacifists. In future all such documents are to be submitted to the Press Bureau before publication. A howl of derisive laughter greeted the HOME SECRETARY'S announcement, but when Mr. SNOWDEN essayed to move the adjournment, although he and his friends were joined by some of the Scotch and Irish malcontents, the total muster was only thirty-three, and the motion ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov 21, 1917 • Various


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