Bureau ( ) may refer to:
Agencies and organizations
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Government agency
A government agency or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government (bureaucracy) that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, s ...
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Public administration
Public administration, or public policy and administration refers to "the management of public programs", or the "translation of politics into the reality that citizens see every day",Kettl, Donald and James Fessler. 2009. ''The Politics of the ...
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News bureau, an office for gathering or distributing news, generally for a given geographical location
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Bureau (European Parliament), the administrative organ of the Parliament of the European Union
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic Intelligence agency, intelligence and Security agency, security service of the United States and Federal law enforcement in the United States, its principal federal law enforcement ag ...
, the leading internal law enforcement agency in the United States
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Service bureau, a company which provides business services for a fee
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Citizens Advice Bureau, a network of independent UK charities that give free, confidential help to people for money, legal, consumer and other problems
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Credit bureau, an organization that gathers and shares information about individuals’ and businesses’ credit histories
Furniture
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Bureau is a piece of furniture with hinged writing space of flap resting at an angle when closed
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Bureau bedstead is form of a folding bed that looks like a bureau when closed
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Bureau cabinet is a combination of a bureau and display shelves
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Bureau dressing table is a combination of a dressing table and a writing desk. Later models by Chippendale lost the actual bureau
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Bureau table is a variant of a kneehole desk with drawers
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Chest of drawers, a piece of furniture that has multiple, stacked, parallel drawers
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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
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Bureau County, Illinois
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Bureau Lake, a body of water in the Gouin Reservoir, in Quebec, Canada
People
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Bernard Béréau (1940–2005), French footballer
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Bernard Bureau (born 1959), French footballer
Other uses
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The Bureau (band)
The Bureau were an English New wave music, new wave Soul music, soul group formed in November 1980 in Birmingham, England, when the original line-up of Dexys Midnight Runners split up. The Bureau retained their Dexys roots and played powerful br ...
, English New Wave soul music group
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''The Bureau'' (TV series), original title: , a French political thriller series
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Le Bureau'', a 2006 French adaptation of the British television series ''The Office''
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified'', a 2013 tactical shooter video game
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Bureau (surname)
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Bureau (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), an episode of ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''
See also
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Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy ( ) is a system of organization where laws or regulatory authority are implemented by civil servants or non-elected officials (most of the time). Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments ...
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Borrow (disambiguation)
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Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English language, English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
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Burrow
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