Bureau
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The French word bureau, which originally referred to an office, can in English refer to:
- a sort of desk with drawers, such as a writing table or a pedestal desk
- the Bureau Mazarin is a 17th century desk form named after Cardinal Mazarin
- in North America, a chest of drawers
- a public office or government agency
- the ministries of Hong Kong are called bureaus, each headed by a secretary
- the Security Bureaus of Hong Kong or Japan
- the Intelligence Bureau is India's internal intelligence agency
- the bureaus of Census and Land Management in the United States
- the U.S. federal bureaus of Investigation, Narcotics, Reclamation, and Indian Affairs. Bureaus in the U.S. government report to Department or Cabinet Level Agencies Department of the Interior.
- the Criminal Assets Bureau division of the Irish police
- the Organized Crime Control Bureau is one of the 9 bureaux that form the New York Police Department
- Bureau 13 is a fictional secret intelligence agency
- a medium-to-large news agency will usually have a bureau in important locales, based on that agency's scope of coverage
- a public service available on a timeshare basis, especially a computer bureau
Bureau is the name of:
- Jean Bureau who was Charles VII's master of artillery
- Louis Édouard Bureau botanist
- Marc Bureau who is the current mayor-elect of the city of Gatineau
- New Wave soul group The Bureau in England
- Bureau Junction in Bureau County, Illinois
- 1969 film The Assassination Bureau
- The Font Bureau, Inc., a Boston-based type foundry
Other examples:
- Better Business Bureau
- Citizen's Advice Bureau (UK)
- Freedmens Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
- the Bureau des Longitudes is a French scientific institution
- American Farm Bureau Federation
- Morozov Design Bureau in Ukraine
- the Commodity Research Bureau publishes an index commodity prices
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