(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.
Bureaux
Definition:
(pl. ) of Bureau
Example Sentences:
(1) Its bureaux have been bombed twice by US forces, once during the Afghanistan war and the second time during the Iraq war, when a correspondent in Baghdad was killed and others injured.
(2) Citizens Advice Bureaux and local law centres might seem the obvious answer, but they rely for funds on local authorities.
(3) "A lot of this is not about shutting bureaux, but can the World Service and BBC News get along?
(4) Whenever Citizens Advice has offered financial advice in some of its bureaux over the last two years, it has found a huge demand – nearly half its enquiries – from the 50-plus age group.
(5) Al-Jazeera’s bureaux have been shut down, journalists arrested and imprisoned on trumped up charges, and the signal has been jammed.
(6) Nine out of 10 of its bureaux had reported inaccuracies with PIP assessments.
(7) The charity said its Citizens Advice Bureaux in England and Wales advised 2.1 million clients with debt problems between April 2011 and March 2012 – 31% of the total problems dealt with.
(8) The charity presented its complaint to the Office of Fair Trading after evidence from its bureaux around the country found that PPI is "very expensive, mis-sold to people who cannot claim on it, and designed to exclude many of the most common situations that can lead to debt".
(9) We've seen rent arrears problems reported to our bureaux go up in every region of England since last year, with a 13% increase across the country for social housing tenants.
(10) Patten also conceded that the corporation may have to cut foreign bureaux as it seeks to make savings as a result of a 16% cut in the licence fee.
(11) We have seen evidence of huge demand for dollars by bureaux de changes, huge purchases of cash that are not accounted for.
(12) Waltham Forest insists that Citizens Advice bureaux restrictions are not a sinister plot to speed social cleansing, but the simple result of central funding cuts.
(13) Citizens Advice bureaux see people in desperate need of support who have nowhere else to turn when jobcentres and the local council don't give out support."
(14) The pound is worth less than €1 at airport bureaux de change , hitting holidaymakers hard, sending the cost of a skiing break into the stratosphere and shrinking pension incomes for expats in Spain, but making Britain a bargain basement destination for tourists.
(15) When Obama announced the latest US measures on New Year's Day, Tehran tried to shore up the value of the riyal by imposing a lower rate in banks and currency exchange bureaux and banning transactions outside of those outlets.
(16) The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux gives these figures for the money-saving advantages of timely advice: a pound spent on welfare benefits advice saves £8.80 in future spending; every pound spent on housing advice saves £2.34; and every bit of debt advice saves £2.98.
(17) FBI bureaux send informants to trawl through Muslim communities, hang out in mosques and community centres, and talk of radical Islam in order to identify possible targets sympathetic to such ideals.
(18) More like the [print] editorial.” The company will make £25m from the sale of the i title to Johnston Press , owner of the Scotsman and Yorkshire Post, and has pledged to invest in “quality journalism” including opening new editorial bureaux in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, as well as an expansion of the US operation.
(19) In the last four years Citizens Advice bureaux have seen a 10-fold increase in payday loans, sparking concerns that more people are relying on the operators to help them get by.
(20) Citzens Advice's chief executive, Gillian Guy, said: "Day in day out our bureaux help people who can't afford their fuel bills.