bureau
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Bureau ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|jʊər|oʊ}} {{respell|BURE|oh}}) may refer to:
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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
- Credit bureau, an organization that gathers and shares information about individuals’ and businesses’ credit histories
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 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
- Bureau County, Illinois
- Bureau Lake, a body of water in the Gouin Reservoir, in Quebec, Canada
People
- Bernard Béréau (1940–2005), French footballer
- Bernard Bureau (born 1959), French footballer
Other uses
- The Bureau (band), English New Wave soul music group
- The Bureau (TV series), original title: {{lang|fr|Le Bureau des Légendes}}, a French political thriller series
- Le Bureau, a 2006 French adaptation of the British television series The Office
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, a 2013 tactical shooter video game
- Bureau (surname)
- Bureau (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
See also
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