Bureau

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Bureau (/ˈbjʊəroʊ/ BURE-oh) may refer to:

Agencies and organizations

• Government agency
• Public administration
• News bureau, an office for gathering or distributing news, generally for a given geographical location
• Bureau (European Parliament), the administrative organ of the Parliament of the European Union
• Federal Bureau of Investigation, the leading internal law enforcement agency in the United States
• Service bureau, a company which provides business services for a fee
• Citizens Advice Bureau, a network of independent UK charities that give free, confidential help to people for money, legal, consumer and other problems

Furniture

• Bureau is a piece of furniture with hinged writing space of flap resting at an angle when closed
  • Bureau bedstead is form of a folding bed that looks like a bureau when closed
  • Bureau bookcase is a combination of a bureau and a bookcase.
  • Bureau cabinet is a combination of a bureau and display shelves.
  • Bureau dressing table is a combination of a dressing table and a writing desk. Later models by Chippendale lost the actual bureau.
  • Bureau table is a variant of a kneehole desk with drawers.
• Chest of drawers, a piece of furniture that has multiple, stacked, parallel drawers
• Bureau à gradin, a writing table with one or several tiers of small drawers and pigeonholes built on a part of the desktop surface.

Geography

• Bureau County, Illinois
• Bureau Lake, a body of water in the Gouin Reservoir, in Quebec, Canada

People

• Bernard Béréau (1940–2005), French footballer
• Bernard Bureau (born 1959), French footballer

Other uses

• The Bureau (band), English New Wave soul music group
• The Bureau (TV series), original title: Le Bureau des Légendes, a French political thriller series
• Le Bureau, a 2006 French adaptation of the British television series The Office
• The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, a 2013 tactical shooter video game
• Bureau (surname)

See also

• Bureaucracy
• Borrow (disambiguation)
• Borough
• Burrow

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This page was last edited on 9 November 2023, at 06:03