bureau

bureau is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
2. noun. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
3. noun. Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
4. noun. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
5. noun. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

   Synonyms: chest, dresser

6. noun. an administrative unit of government

   "the Central Intelligence Agency"

   "the Census Bureau"

   Synonyms: agency, authority, office

Synonyms

chest, dresser, agency, authority, office

Common word forms

bureaus

Words from these letters

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