Bureau ( ) may refer to:

Agencies and organizations

  • Government agency
  • Public administration
  • News bureau, an office for gathering or distributing news, generally for a given geographical location
  • Bureau (European Parliament), the administrative organ of the Parliament of the European Union
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation, the leading internal law enforcement agency in the United States
  • Service bureau, a company which provides business services for a fee
  • Citizens Advice Bureau, a network of independent UK charities that give free, confidential help to people for money, legal, consumer and other problems
  • Credit bureau, an organization that gathers and shares information about individuals’ and businesses’ credit histories
  • Agricultural Bureau of South Australia defunct government department

Furniture

  • Bureau is a piece of furniture with hinged writing space of flap resting at an angle when closed
  • Bureau bedstead is form of a folding bed that looks like a bureau when closed
  • Bureau cabinet is a combination of a bureau and display shelves
  • Bureau dressing table is a combination of a dressing table and a writing desk. Later models by Chippendale lost the actual bureau
  • Bureau table is a variant of a kneehole desk with drawers
  • Chest of drawers, a piece of furniture that has multiple, stacked, parallel drawers
  • Bureau à gradin, a writing table with one or several tiers of small drawers and pigeonholes built on a part of the desktop surface

Geography

  • Bureau County, Illinois
  • Bureau Lake, a body of water in the Gouin Reservoir, in Quebec, Canada

People

  • Bernard Béréau (1940–2005), French footballer
  • Bernard Bureau (born 1959), French footballer

Other uses

  • The Bureau (band), English New Wave soul music group
  • The Bureau (TV series), original title: , a French political thriller series
  • Le Bureau, a 2006 French adaptation of the British television series The Office
  • The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, a 2013 tactical shooter video game
  • Bureau (surname)
  • Bureau (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine

See also

  • Bureaucracy
  • Borrow (disambiguation)
  • Borough
  • Burrow