Definition of Bureau

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Bureau

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.

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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 was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.
Gordon Parks

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

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
Bruce Beresford

That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.
Daniel Okrent

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.
Rick Derringer

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.
Sibel Edmonds

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.
Fredrik Bajer

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.
Sibel Edmonds

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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