Bureau ( ) may refer to:

Agencies and organizations

Government agency A government agency or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government (bureaucracy) that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, s ...

Public administration Public administration, or public policy and administration refers to "the management of public programs", or the "translation of politics into the reality that citizens see every day",Kettl, Donald and James Fessler. 2009. ''The Politics of the ...

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; 'fo ...

, an office for gathering or distributing news, generally for a given geographical location * Bureau (European Parliament), the administrative organ of the Parliament of the European Union *

Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic Intelligence agency, intelligence and Security agency, security service of the United States and Federal law enforcement in the United States, its principal federal law enforcement ag ...

, the leading internal law enforcement agency in the United States *

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 ...

, a company which provides business services for a fee *

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 natio ...

, a network of independent UK charities that give free, confidential help to people for money, legal, consumer and other problems *

Credit bureau A credit bureau is a data collection agency that gathers account information from various creditors and provides that information to a consumer reporting agency in the United States, a credit reference agency in the United Kingdom, a credit report ...

, an organization that gathers and shares information about individuals’ and businesses’ credit histories

Furniture

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 administra ...

is a piece of furniture with hinged writing space of flap resting at an angle when closed ** Bureau bedstead is form of a folding bed that looks like a bureau when closed ** Bureau cabinet is a combination of a bureau and display shelves ** Bureau dressing table is a combination of a dressing table and a writing desk. Later models by Chippendale lost the actual bureau ** Bureau table is a variant of a kneehole desk with drawers *

Chest of drawers A chest of drawers, also called (especially in North American English) a dresser or a bureau, or informally a Chester Draws, is a type of cabinet (a piece of furniture) that has multiple parallel, horizontal drawers generally stacked one above a ...

, a piece of furniture that has multiple, stacked, parallel drawers * 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

Bureau County, Illinois Bureau County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 33,244. Its county seat is Princeton. Bureau County is part of the Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, and the He ...

* Bureau Lake, a body of water in the Gouin Reservoir, in Quebec, Canada

People

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. Honours ...

(1940–2005), French footballer *

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 w ...

(born 1959), French footballer

Other uses

The Bureau (band) The Bureau were an English New wave music, new wave Soul music, 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 br ...

, English New Wave soul music group * ''The Bureau'' (TV series), original title: , a French political thriller series * ''

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, chang ...

'', a 2006 French adaptation of the British television series ''The Office'' * '' The Bureau: XCOM Declassified'', a 2013 tactical shooter video game *

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 ...

Bureau (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) "Bureau" is the twenty-second episode of the third season of the American television police sitcom series ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''. It is the 67th overall episode of the series and is written by David Phillips & Alison Agosti and directed by Rya ...

, an episode of ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''

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Furniture

Geography

People

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