Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
- 2noun
The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
- 5noun
furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
- 6noun
an administrative unit of government
"the Central Intelligence Agency"
"the Census Bureau"
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