Bureau

Bureau - Other Definitions

• (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.