Bureau
['bjʊərəʊ] or ['bjʊro]
Definition
(n.) Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
(n.) The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
(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.
(n.) A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
Typed by Anatole
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Chest of drawers.[2]. Office, counting-room, place of business.[3]. Department (of Government).
Typist: Robinson
Definition
n. a writing-table or chest of drawers: a room or office where such a table is used: a department for the transacting of public business:—pl. Bureaux (būr′ō) Bureaus (būr′ōz).
Typed by Felix
Examples
- Then Adams crossed the Andes, and started a market-report bureau in Buenos Ayres. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Who has the key of this bureau? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I thought of the black-beetles, the old boxes, the worm-eaten bureau. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I therefore cabled to my friend, Wilson Hargreave, of the New York Police Bureau, who has more than once made use of my knowledge of London crime. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This bureau consists of a double column of drawers, with a central small cupboard between them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my treasure was safe, and locked it again. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- An effective apparatus of this kind, such as has been adopted by the United States Government for the use of the Bureau of Mines Rescue Crew, is shown in the accompanying illustration. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- No, it was for something in that wooden bureau. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Brent