Synonyms for bureau
ˈbyʊər oʊ; ˈbyʊər oʊzbu·reau

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.8 / 5 votes

1. agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authoritynoun

   an administrative unit of government

   "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"

   Synonyms:
   assurance, billet, berth, means, confidence, chest of drawers, spot, delegacy, role, office staff, function, dominance, post, dresser, sanction, part, authority, self-assurance, power, way, say-so, sureness, place, representation, government agency, agency, chest, position, business office, self-confidence, potency, authorisation, situation, office, authorization, federal agency

2. chest of drawers, chest, bureau, dressernoun

   furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

   Synonyms:
   authority, thorax, chest, dresser, toilet table, government agency, federal agency, agency, pectus, office, vanity, dressing table, chest of drawers, actor's assistant, breast

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1. • Administrative Unit
   • Furniture

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. bureaunoun

   Synonyms:
   chest of drawers

2. bureaunoun

   Synonyms:
   office, counting-room, place of business

3. bureaunoun

   Synonyms:
   department (of government)

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "bureau":

   office, desk, room, table, officers, mesa, praesidium, bureaux, suite, council, board, branch, office, office, presidium, fbl, inning, unops, presidency, emb, oios, offices, fbi, προεδρείο, directorate-general

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1. Mark DeSaulnier:

   I would like to be part of re-establishing journalism as a sacred part of American democracy as it once was, the industry right now is going through a tough time, said John Stanton, the former Washington Bureau chief at BuzzFeed News, during the press conference. Were at a crisis point in the industry, and its good that Congress is taking a look at these issues and how these big tech companies are affecting our ability to do our job. Stanton, who was laid off from BuzzFeed earlier this year, recently launched the Save Journalism project with Laura Bassett, the former senior politics reporter at HuffPost. Bassett was laid off from HuffPost in January. FACEBOOKS AVERAGE US USER SPENT 38 MINUTES PER DAY ON THE PLATFORM, A DROP FROM 2017, BUT INSTAGRAM USAGE INCREASED.

2. John Barrasso:

   This isn’t just about groups that work with the agency or even the people who enjoy our public lands, it’s about all the employees at the Bureau of Land Management, how can the men and women who work at this important agency respect Tracy Stone-Manning knowing she threatened their colleagues at the U.S. Forest Service?

3. Wilbur Ross:

   I respect the Supreme Court but strongly disagree with Supreme Court ruling regarding my decision to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question. My focus, and that of the The Census Bureau and Justice Department is to conduct Decennial Census.

4. Donald Trump:

   Comey understood Trump's people as having neither knowledge of nor respect for the independence of the law enforcement function. And he saw it as an ongoing task on his part to protect the rest of the bureau from improper contacts and interferences from a group of people he did not regard as honorable.

5. The Sierra Club:

   The City of Los Angeles spoke with one voice and rejected buying power from the ecologically damaging Soda Mountain Solar project, given the Bureau of Land Management’s recent decision to approve the project, this leadership from Los Angeles is well-timed and makes a powerful statement.