Definitions for bureau

bureau bu·reau

Spelling: [byoo r-oh]
IPA: /ˈbyʊər oʊ/

Bureau is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in bureau (aberuu).

Definitions for bureau

noun

  1. a chest of drawers, often with a mirror at the top.
  2. a division of a government department or an independent administrative unit.
  3. an office for collecting or distributing news or information, coordinating work, or performing specified services; agency:
  4. Chiefly British. a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.

Origin of bureau

1710-20; French: desk, office, originally a kind of cloth (used to cover desks, etc.), Anglo-French, Old French burel, equivalent to bur- (probably *būra, variant of Late Latin burra wool, fl

Examples for bureau

I am writing this on the bureau, so that when I lift my eyes I may see It.

Well, they tells me—Lawd knows what they calls it bureau for!

JPMorgan, Treasury and the bureau of Prisons declined to provide a current fee schedule for the cards.

They say the Department of Justice, the parent agency of the bureau of Prisons, has reimbursed Treasury for those costs.

The bureau keeps publicly condemning Pyongyang for the Sony hack.

Beaufort rose with a desperate effort; he moved to the bureau.

A copy of AA Today, an Alcoholics Anonymous publication, rested atop the bureau.

They undressed again, and Dan put his gun away in his bureau.

FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said that the bureau fully complies with U.S. policy as it relates to ransom payments.

And I know that since the death of Maman Theresa they had hid it in one of the bureau drawers.

Word Value for bureau
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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