(n.) Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
(n.) The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week the labor bureau reported that the US added just 69,000 jobs in May as the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%, the first rise in nine months.
(2) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
(3) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(4) --The study was based on data collected by the US Bureau of the Census in the March 1991 Current Population Survey for six groups of workers in health care occupations and three classifications of insurance employees.
(5) The bureau seemed obsessed instead with classified material that flowed through a private email server set up by Clinton’s aides.
(6) Could the film’s producer be the same Harry Saltzman who came to the bureau in 1951 as a newspaper photographer to take a picture of a laboratory?
(7) The Bureau of the Census has developed a model describing the joint effect of sampling and nonsampling errors on census statistics.
(8) To test this hypothesis, data concerning use of a pediatric ED during three seasonally diverse months was analyzed in the light of Weather Bureau information concerning daily conditions during the study months.
(9) The Met's press bureau refused to put out substantial details of its policing plan, claiming it was not necessary for an event of the anticipated scale.
(10) The New York Times's bureau chief in Tehran, Thomas Erdbrink, also reacted to Rezaian's arrest.
(11) Collins's claim came after a member of the bureau went to Bell Pottinger, as well as a number of other lobbying firms, posing as a member of the Uzbek government wanting to clean up the regime's image in the west.
(12) Africans want to be allowed to travel in their own country and to seek work where they want to and not where the labour bureau tells them to.
(13) The data are from the Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey and annual money income before taxes is the measure of income.
(14) In implementing this approach, the Bureau of Quality Assurance recognizes that long-term care review is in an evolutionary state, and will initiate a series of demonstrations designed to test and refine various acceptable approaches, rather than require a single uniform methodology for PSRO use.
(15) Elemental standards, primarily National Bureau of Standards multielement research glasses, were dry-ground into submicrometer-sized particles and analyzed at 200 kV accelerating potential.
(16) In 1993, at the Branch Davidian religious compound outside Waco, Texas, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms didn’t wait for the sect leader, David Koresh, to leave before attempting to arrest him and got into a gun battle that claimed 10 victims and led to a disastrous 51-day siege culminating in dozens more deaths.
(17) A spokesman for Putin had also contacted the NYT's Moscow bureau to float the idea, Rosenthal said.
(18) To assist analysts in improving their data in mycotoxin research, the Community Bureau of Reference of the European Commission has produced several reference materials for mycotoxins; others, such as a reference material for ochratoxin A in grains, are in development.
(19) Over the past six years, the Home Office has deported 605 Afghans who arrived in the UK as unaccompanied minors, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism .
(20) Data were obtained primarily from the Population Reference Bureau World Population Data Sheets for 1979 and 1987.
Bureaucrat
Definition:
(n.) An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(2) An overly bureaucratic approach to midwifery is not just letting mothers down – it's putting the whole profession under strain.
(3) Najam Sethi, editor of the weekly Friday Times, said: "The powers that be, that is the military and bureaucratic establishment, are mulling the formation of a national government, with or without the PPP [the ruling Pakistan People's party].
(4) Health care is shifting from a professional-independent to a business-bureaucratic orientation.
(5) It had become over-bureaucratic, and lacked gravitas, and like teaching, needed to rediscover both its intellectual confidence and professional autonomy.
(6) As a result, you find you're constantly running into a bureaucratic wall.
(7) However, fFew people realise how the death of someone close leads the survivors into a bureaucratic maze at a time when they feel least able to take on new responsibilities.
(8) In fact, not only have the teams that failed to qualify not been invited to play, for if they were that would contradict the elitist terms of the qualification that are disavowed so cunningly here by Pitbull, but also in reality, only Fifa functionaries, Brazilian bureaucrats and half the BBC will get into Brazil's stadiums gratis this summer.
(9) Expensive flights, bureaucratic borders and lack of postal systems in remote locations are just some of the headaches.
(10) But bureaucratic dysfunction means less than half have been given out – as shown by two state department charts – and only at the end of agonizingly long waiting periods .
(11) The politicians understand it better, the bureaucrats understand it better.” “People understand the need to cut ‘hard and fast’ now, before it’s too late, and we are locked into something truly catastrophic.” He said while Paris was a vital, and almost final, chance for global leaders to commit to binding targets, it would not be the end of tightening of global emissions.
(12) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
(13) Clunky and bureaucratic as those systems may be, they have been and still are a key expression of the social contract that holds us all together.
(14) Crispin Blunt, the Conservative chair of the foreign affairs committee, said the delays had been because of “bureaucratic complexity”.
(15) No, I’m not a naive optimist and yes, I know only too well about the bureaucratic challenges of different nations attempting to work alongside each other.
(16) The system is bureaucratic and savings need to be made."
(17) This limited form of participation is attributed to the bureaucratic organization of national family planning programs that seek to implement policies with explicit demographic goals.
(18) But the demise of a relatively modest bureaucratic fix offers some insight into the scope, or rather the lack of scope, for anything approaching a serious and meaningful agenda for reform of our prisons.
(19) Scott Morrison ignored his department’s advice that it was illegal for him to refuse permanent visas for boat arrivals found to be refugees, and defied warnings from bureaucrats that the move would be challenged in the high court and he would lose.
(20) Even activities that might have cast China in a positive light have been abandoned or revised because they were outside the bureaucratic comfort zone.