Usually means: Office for administrative or services.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word bureau:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. bureau: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bureau: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bureau: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bureau: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bureau: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bureau: Wordnik
  7. bureau: Wiktionary
  8. bureau: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bureau: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bureau: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bureau, bureau: Dictionary.com
  12. bureau: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. bureau: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Bureau (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Bureau (European Parliament), Bureau, The Bureau (TV Series), The Bureau (TV series), The Bureau: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bureau: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bureau: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bureau: Rhymezone
  18. bureau, bureau (het), bureau (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bureau: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. bureau: Free Dictionary
  21. bureau: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Bureau, bureau: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. bureau: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. bureau: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. bureau: Wordnik
  26. bureau: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. bureau: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bureau: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bureau: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See bureaus as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An administrative unit of government; office.
noun:  An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news.
noun:  An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed).
noun:  (chiefly British) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers.
noun:  (US) A chest of drawers for clothes.
noun:  A surname from French.

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