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Definition of Bureau

Bureau

  1. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
  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.
  4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.

Bureau Quotations

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney

I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.
Emily Blunt

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.
Robert Mueller
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Bureau Translations

bureau in Afrikaans is buro, kantoor
bureau in Danish is kontor
bureau in Dutch is bureau, bureel, kantoor
bureau in Portuguese is departamento
bureau in Spanish is oficina

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