bureau

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 External links 2 Dutch 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Synonyms 2.2.2 Derived terms 3 French 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

French bureau (“‘an office, a desk or writing table, a court, a chest of drawers, orig. a kind of coarse brownish or russet stuff with which writing tables were covered’”) < Old French burel (“‘a coarse woolen stuff’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• Syllables: bur·eau
  
• AHD: byo͝orʹō
  
• IPA: /ˈbjʊr·əʊ/
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• Rhymes: -ʊərəʊ

[edit] Noun

bureau (plural bureaux or bureaus)

1. office
2. desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath
3. (US) chest of drawers for clothes

[edit] Related terms

• bureaucracy
• bureaucrat
• bureaucratic
• burel
• Federal Bureau of Investigation

[edit] Translations

[edit] External links

• bureau in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• bureau in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] Dutch

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[edit] Noun

bureau (Plural: bureaus)

1. desk
2. office

[edit] Synonyms

• bureel

[edit] Derived terms

• reclamebureau (2)
• bureaula (1)

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[edit] French

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[edit] Noun

bureau m. (plural bureaus)

1. desk
2. office