Bureau

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Bureau (/ˈbjʊər/ BURE-oh) 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 administrative organ of the Parliament of the European Union
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation, the leading internal law enforcement agency in the United States
  • Service bureau, a company which provides business services for a fee
  • Citizens Advice Bureau
    , a network of independent UK charities that give free, confidential help to people for money, legal, consumer and other problems

Furniture

  • Bureau
    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 bookcase is a combination of a bureau and a bookcase.
    • 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 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

People

Other uses

See also