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
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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, t ...
, 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 piece of furniture, typically a table used for office work
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Chest of drawers, a piece of furniture that has multiple, stacked, parallel drawers
Geography
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Bureau County, Illinois
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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
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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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