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 (government), administration of Government, government establishment (Governance#P ...
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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 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 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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Desk
A desk or bureau is a piece of furniture with a flat table-style work surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic, professional or domestic activities such as reading, writing, or using equipment such as a computer. Desks oft ...
, a piece of furniture, typically a table used for office work
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Chest of drawers
A chest of drawers, also called (especially in North American English) a dresser or a bureau, is a type of cabinet (a piece of furniture) that has multiple parallel, horizontal drawers generally stacked one above another.
In American English a ...
, a piece of furniture that has multiple, stacked, parallel drawers
Geography
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Bureau County, Illinois
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Bureau Lake
The Lac Bureau is a vast freshwater body of the southwestern part of the Gouin Reservoir, in the territory of the town of La Tuque, in Haute-Mauricie, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.
This lake exte ...
, a body of water in the Gouin Reservoir, in Quebec, Canada
People
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Bernard Béréau
Bernard Béréau (or Béreau; 4 October 1940 – 2 January 2005) was a French professional footballer who played as a defender.
After football
After retiring, Béréau became a physiotherapist for a club in Saint-Jean-de-Luz
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(1940–2005), French footballer
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Bernard Bureau
Bernard Bureau (born 25 January 1959) is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Club career
Bureau is a youth graduate of AS Chelles. At age 19, a couple of months before joining Paris Saint-Germain in 1978, he wa ...
(born 1959), French footballer
Other uses
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The Bureau (band)
The Bureau were an English new wave soul group formed in November 1980 in Birmingham, England, when the original line-up of Dexys Midnight Runners split up. The Bureau retained their Dexys roots and played powerful brass-driven soul sounds.
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, 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
''Le Bureau'' is a 2006 French television show written and directed by Nicolas & Bruno. It is a French adaptation of the popular British television series '' The Office''. ''Le Bureau'' adapted the scripts of the original British series, changi ...
'', 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) Bureau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* André Bureau (1935–2019), Canadian lawyer and communications executive
* Jacques Bureau (1860–1933), Canadian politician
* Jean Bureau (c. 1390–1463) French artillery commander ...
See also
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Bureaucracy
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Borrow (disambiguation)
Borrow or borrowing can mean: to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
*In finance, monetary debt
*In language, the use of loanwords
* In arithmetic, when a digit becomes less than zero and the deficiency is taken f ...
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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 ...
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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 s ...
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