Bureau

1. n. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
2. n. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
3. n. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
4. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.