1 (BrE) a desk with drawers and usually a top that opens down to make a table to write on
2 (AmE) = CHESTOFDRAWERS
3 an office or organization that provides information on a particular subject:
an employment bureau
4 (in the US) a government department or part of a government department:
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for bureau is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does bureau appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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