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bureau

A bureau is a large group of business.

bureau

(= agency, office, authority) an administrative unit of government the Central Intelligence Agency the Census Bureau Office of Management and Budget Tennessee Valley Authority (= chest of drawers) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

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Simple sentences

The college has a placement bureau for students.
The bureau drawer has several compartments.
Tom hid his money in a bureau drawer.

Movie subtitles

The Deciphering Bureau failed to make out the mysterious message.
At the travel bureau See the World.
Mr. Novak is employed at your travel bureau.
From our travel bureau?
With the difference that he really travels but his brother only through our bureau leaflets.
What do you know about that, except from the leaflets at your travel bureau.
Medical Research Bureau is backing me.
I shall most certainly write the Bureau of Rivers and Harbors about this.
The Bureau of Military Information is unduly alarmed.
I want to line my bureau drawers.
My own Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Joe, there's a bottle of whiskey on my bureau.
This is Lieutenant McPherson, Homicide Bureau.
The most silent service of the United States in peace or war is the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A bureau secretary?
The chief of the spy bureau.
Connect me with the Homicide bureau.
The information Bureau.
How do we get to this Information Bureau?
In the bureau drawer.
In the bureau?
I beg your pardon, but M. La Fontaine of the concert bureau. has phoned to say that all arrangements are complete.
If my lecture bureau and my radio sponsors were to learn I am well they'd insist upon my fulfilling my contracts. I would be forced to leave.
Joe, there's some whisky on my bureau. Get it quick.
This is the BBC News Bureau broadcasting from London.
My name is Adam Gilflower from the Bureau of Entomology.
We've put her in charge of our travel bureau.
There's the mailing bureau for stamp collectors.
Professor Henri Buoyan, Second Assistant of the Bureau of Awards and Merits.
A bureau made of paulownia wood.
I'm gonna report this to the Better Business Bureau and the police.
An old lady just called the detective bureau, claims Williams is hiding under her piazza.
I'm afraid you have us confused as the Bureau of Missing Persons.
I've had some experience with the Bureau of Missing Persons.
Well, Mr. Hoag lost persons are the concern of the Missing Persons Bureau.
Now, you do what I tell you and go to the Missing Persons Bureau for your sister.
Joe, there's some whisky on my bureau.
You got that already from the Bureau of Missing Persons.
Office, this is Police Identification Bureau.
Kendall doesn't work out of the missing persons bureau, you know.

News and current affairs

Dissidents picked up by the police but not formally arrested sometimes wind up in re-education camps or in psychiatric hospitals run by the public security bureau.
Indeed, Jiang Zemin, China's president and paramount leader, relies on spies from the Public Security Bureau and the Bureau of National Security to maintain his rule.
Cheng Kejie, a high Party official executed for corruption last year, was long under special surveillance by the Public Security Bureau.
The first, the US Census Bureau's annual income and poverty report, shows that, despite the economy's supposed recovery from the Great Recession, ordinary Americans' incomes continue to stagnate.
Then the Federal Service Bureau, formerly the KGB, celebrated the anniversary of the founding of its foreign service branch - ie, the spies - a reverie attended by a certain former employee named Putin.
In January, Khaled Mashal, the leader of Hamas's Damascus-based political bureau, embarked on a diplomatic initiative of his own, and was hosted by King Abdullah of Jordan - the first such visit in more than a decade.
Tensions increased dramatically when Mashal signed the unity agreement with Fatah, after stating his intention to resign as head of the political bureau.
As Ralph Ossa showed in a working paper for the US National Bureau of Economic Research, if Germany did not have access to international markets, its standard of living would be half of what it is now.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, the non-profit organization that has long been responsible for marking the beginning and end of America's recessions, has finally declared that the recession that it said began in March 2001 is over.
My job as bureau chief in Beijing isolated me from the struggles in the head office in distant Hong Kong.
At the end of July, the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis released revisions to American GDP data going back to 1929.
The Dodd-Frank financial reforms created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so that privately issued financial products would serve the public better, and created incentives for derivatives to be traded on public markets.
Today, the Party's political bureau has more than 20 members and each resolution requires unanimity.
In the US, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the length of the average workweek has held steady at about 34 hours since the advent of the Internet two decades ago.
Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef, for the National Bureau of Economic Research, have looked at a hundred years of data in the US, for pay in finance, and in other occupations.
The US Census Bureau estimates the money income that households receive from all sources and identifies the income level that divides the top and bottom halves of the distribution.
Moreover, the Census Bureau's estimate of income is too narrow, given that middle-income families have received increasing government transfers while benefiting from lower income-tax rates.
Finally, the price index used by the Census Bureau fails to capture the important contributions of new products and product improvements to Americans' standard of living.
Security forces throughout the continent subsequently opened their doors to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency.
Family and friends assumed that Public Security Bureau police detained them and that the couple would be released after the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of fifteen years ago passed.
Today, the contemporary version of the KGB, the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), runs Russia's energy businesses in much the same top-down way that the KGB once ran the Soviet Union, with business always subordinate to the regime's political needs.
Environmental activists have found allies among officials within China's State Environmental Protection Administration, Meteorological Administration, and Forestry Bureau.
The full force of the fiscal stimulus package began to go into effect in the second quarter of 2009, with the US National Bureau of Economic Research officially designating the end of the recession as having come in June of that year.
If these include personnel from Room 99, Kim's secret nuclear directorate, and Room 39, the bureau that controls his slush fund of hard currencies, more attention is needed.
Modernization, indeed, simply turned out to be yet another redistribution of property to those on top, particularly those who came out of the St. Petersburg mayoral office and the Federal Security Bureau (FSB).
Almost every Arab ruler at one time or another attempted to silence the station by closing its local bureau and pressing the Qatari rulers to muzzle its freewheeling journalists.

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