Bureau

Bureau, a French word signifying a writing-table or desk; also an office for transacting business, a department of government, or the officials that carry it on. In the United States, it is also used in the latter sense; but is universally the word for a chest of drawers.—BUREAUCRACY is a name often given to signify the kind of government where the administration is centralised in regularly graded series of government officials, who are responsible only to their chiefs, and who interfere with and control every detail of public and private life.