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 es ...
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News bureau
A news bureau is an office for gathering or distributing news. Similar terms are used for specialized bureaus, often to indicate a geographic location or scope of coverage: a ‘Tokyo bureau’ refers to a given news operation's office in Tokyo; ' ...
, 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 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
Citizens AdviceCitizens Advice is the operating name of The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux which is the umbrella charity for a wider network of local advice centres. The abbreviation CitA is sometimes used to refer to this nation ...
, 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 of ...
, 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
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 Henn ...
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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 exten ...
, 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
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are ass ...
(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, changing ...
'', 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 at ...
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)
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
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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 s ...
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