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Definitions of bureau
  1. noun
    furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
  2. noun
    an administrative unit of government
Definition that contains bureau
  • agent any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
  • han imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization
  • lobby an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying
  • mandarin any high government official or bureaucrat
  • ds the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas
  • irs the bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections
  • parkinson British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993)
  • bureaucracy a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
  • bureaucratic of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy
  • putin Russian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in 2000; formerly director of the Federal Security Bureau (born in 1952)
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