Bureau ( ) may refer to:
Agencies and organizations
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Government agency
A government or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an administrati ...
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Public administration
Public Administration (a form of governance) or Public Policy and Administration (an academic discipline) is the implementation of public policy, administration of government establishment (public governance), management of non-profit establ ...
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News bureau, an office for gathering or distributing news, generally for a given geographical location
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Bureau (European Parliament) The Bureau of the European Parliament is responsible for matters relating to the budget, administration, organisation and staff. It is composed of the President of the European Parliament along with all 14 Vice-Presidents and the five Quaestors (in ...
, the administrative organ of the Parliament of the European Union
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...
, the leading internal law enforcement agency in the United States
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Service bureau
A service bureau is a company that provides business services for a fee. The term has been extensively used to describe technology-based services to financial services companies, particularly banks. Service bureaus are a significant sector within t ...
, a company which provides business services for a fee
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Citizens Advice Bureau, a network of independent UK charities that give free, confidential help to people for money, legal, consumer and other problems
Furniture
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Bureau
Bureau ( ) 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 administrat ...
is a piece of furniture with hinged writing space of flap resting at an angle when closed
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Bureau bedstead is form of a folding bed that looks like a bureau when closed
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Bureau bookcase is a combination of a bureau and a bookcase.
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Bureau cabinet is a combination of a bureau and display shelves.
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Bureau dressing table is a combination of a dressing table and a writing desk. Later models by Chippendale lost the actual bureau.
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Bureau table is a variant of a kneehole desk with drawers.
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Chest of drawers, a piece of furniture that has multiple, stacked, parallel drawers
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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
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Bureau County, Illinois
Bureau County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 34,978. Its county seat is Princeton.
Bureau County is part of the Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, and the Hennep ...
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Bureau Lake, a body of water in the Gouin Reservoir, in Quebec, Canada
People
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Bernard Béréau (1940–2005), French footballer
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Bernard Bureau (born 1959), French footballer
Other uses
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The Bureau (band), English New Wave soul music group
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''The Bureau'' (TV series), original title: , a French political thriller series
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Le Bureau'', a 2006 French adaptation of the British television series ''The Office''
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified'', a 2013 tactical shooter video game
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Bureau (surname)
See also
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Bureaucracy
The term bureaucracy () refers to a body of non-elected governing officials as well as to an administrative policy-making group. Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected offi ...
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Borrow (disambiguation)
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Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
History
In the Middle Ag ...
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Burrow
An Eastern chipmunk at the entrance of its burrow
A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to construct a space suitable for habitation or temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion. Burrows provide a form of sh ...
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