Thesaurus: bureau

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1. n. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
2. n. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
3. n. Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
4. n. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
5. n. an administrative unit of government
6. n. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
7. n:100 n an administrative unit of government n furniture with drawers for keeping clothes