Bureau
Bu´reau
| n. | 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.
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| Noun | 1. |  bureau - an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" |
| 2. | bureau - furniture with drawers for keeping clothes |
BUREAU. A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the secretary of state. Vide Merl. Repert. h. t.
agency, bailiwick, chest of drawers, chiffonier, commissariat, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, desk, dresser, ministry, municipality, secretariat, section, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shrievalty, subdivision