bureau

1. 1.

   an administrative unit of government

   “the Central Intelligence Agency”

   “the Census Bureau”

   “Office of Management and Budget”

   “Tennessee Valley Authority”

   Synonymsagencyfederal agencygovernment agencyofficeauthority

   Broaderadministrative unit

   NarrowerAir Force Research LaboratoryArmy High Performance Computing Research CenterNaval Research LaboratoryUnited States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratoryexecutive agencyFood and Drug AdministrationCenter for Disease Control and PreventionCounterterrorist CenterNonproliferation CenterBureau of the Census
2. 2.

   furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

   Synonymschest of drawerschestdresser

   Broaderfurniture

   Narrowerchiffonierhighboylowboy

   Partsdrawershelf

Other forms of bureau

plural

bureaux

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bureau

What does bureau mean?

bureau means "an administrative unit of government". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bureau?

bureau has 2 syllables: bur-eau. The stress falls on "bur". In IPA it is /ˈbjʊɹoʊ/.

What is another word for bureau?

Close synonyms include agency, federal agency, government agency, office, authority. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bureau a common word?

bureau is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bureau?

1 word rhymes with bureau. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.