Bureau

bu'ro, n.; pi. Bu'eeaux or -reaus. -roz. Orig., a desk with drawers for papers; the place where a bureau is used, or busine transacted; department for transaction of public busine ; body of subordinate officers under the direction a department chief; a chest of drawers for clothes, etc. — Bureaucracy, bu-ro'kra-sY, n. A system conducting government busine by departments, each under a chief.