Bureau ( ) may refer to:
Agencies and organizations
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Government agency
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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 est ...
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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 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
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 Hennep ...
* 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), ''The Bureau'' (TV series), original title: , 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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