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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bureau \Bu"reau\, n.; pl. E. {Bureaus}, F. {Bureaux}. [F. bureau
     a writing table, desk, office, OF., drugget, with which a
     writing table was often covered, equiv. to F. bure, and fr.
     OF. buire dark brown, the stuff being named from its color,
     fr. L. burrus red, fr. Gr. ? flame-colored, prob. fr. ? fire.
     See {Fire}, n., and cf. {Borel}, n.]


     1. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for
        papers. --Swift.
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     2. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where
        business requiring writing is transacted.
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     3. 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.
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     Note: On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in
           most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the
           Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England
           and America, the term is confined to inferior and
           subordinate departments; as, the "Pension Bureau," a
           subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [Obs.]
           In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the
           trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
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     4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an
        ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.]
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     {Bureau system}. See {Bureaucracy}.
  
     {Bureau Veritas}, an institution, in the interest of maritime
        underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all
        over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed
        to Paris in 1830, and re["e]stablished in Brussels in
        1870.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bureau
       n 1: an administrative unit of government; "the Central
            Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of
            Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
            [syn: {agency}, {federal agency}, {government agency}, {office},
             {authority}]
       2: furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: {chest of
          drawers}, {chest}, {dresser}]
       [also: {bureaux} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "bureau":
     agency, bailiwick, chest, chest of drawers, chiffonier,
     commissariat, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, department,
     desk, division, dresser, ministry, municipality, office,
     secretariat, section, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shrievalty,
     subdivision
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BUREAU. A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is 
  used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been 
  borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the 
  secretary of state. Vide Merl. Repert. h. t. 
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Bureau -- U.S. County in Illinois
     Population (2000):    35503
     Housing Units (2000): 15331
     Land area (2000):     868.564029 sq. miles (2249.570413 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    4.735354 sq. miles (12.264509 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    873.299383 sq. miles (2261.834922 sq. km)
     Located within:       Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
     Location:             41.386420 N, 89.477767 W
     Headwords:
      Bureau
      Bureau, IL
      Bureau County
      Bureau County, IL
  

















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