Bureau

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The French word bureau, which originally referred to an office, can in English refer to:

• a sort of desk with drawers, such as a writing table or a pedestal desk
  • the Bureau Mazarin is a 17th century desk form named after Cardinal Mazarin
• in North America, a chest of drawers
• a public office or government agency
  • the ministries of Hong Kong are called bureaus, each headed by a secretary
  • the Security Bureaus of Hong Kong or Japan
  • the Intelligence Bureau is India's internal intelligence agency
  • the bureaus of Census and Land Management in the United States
  • the U.S. federal bureaus of Investigation, Narcotics, Reclamation, and Indian Affairs. Bureaus in the U.S. government report to Department or Cabinet Level Agencies Department of the Interior.
  • the Criminal Assets Bureau division of the Irish police
  • the Organized Crime Control Bureau is one of the 9 bureaux that form the New York Police Department
  • Bureau 13 is a fictional secret intelligence agency
• a medium-to-large news agency will usually have bureaux in important locales, based on that agency's scope of coverage
• a public service available on a timeshare basis, especially a computer bureau

Bureau is the name of:

• Jean Bureau who was Charles VII's master of artillery
• Louis Édouard Bureau botanist
• Marc Bureau who is the current mayor-elect of the city of Gatineau
• New Wave soul group The Bureau in England
• Bureau Junction in Bureau County, Illinois
• 1969 film The Assassination Bureau
• The Font Bureau, Inc., a Boston-based type foundry

Other examples:

• Better Business Bureau
• Indian Bureau
• Citizen's Advice Bureau (UK)
• Freedmens Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
• the Bureau des Longitudes is a French scientific institution
• American Farm Bureau Federation
• Morozov Design Bureau in Ukraine
• the Commodity Research Bureau publishes an index commodity prices