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Definition of Bureau

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. Related Definitions: An, As, Body, Bureau, Business, Chest, Chief, Clothes, Department, Desk, Direction, Especially, For, Force, Furniture, Hence, In, Is, Labor, Made, Of, Office, Or, Originally, Ornamental, Piece, Place, Public, Requiring, Such, Table, The, Transacted, Under, Used, When, Where, Who, With, Writing

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

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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