Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bureau
IPA transcription: [bj'ʊɹoʊ]
Pronunciations of bureau
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: agency, federal_agency, government_agency, bureau, office, authority
    Meaning: an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
  • Synonyms: chest_of_drawers, chest, bureau, dresser
    Meaning: furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
Usage examples
  • She shut the bureau with a slam, and glanced at him.
  • "What's the matter with it?" said Mrs. Pepper straightening the things on the bureau.
  • From a press bureau in New York flowed a stream of pamphlets, leaflets, and cartoons.
  • Keep your radio or television set tuned to a local station for information and advice from your local government or the Weather Bureau.
  • Seeing her husband, she dropped her hands into the drawer of the bureau as though looking for something, and only looked round at him when he had come quite up to her.
  • Grace lit the candles on Sylvia's bureau, while Sylvia picked up her treasured dolls, "Molly" and "Polly," which her Grandmother Fulton had sent her on her last birthday.
  • There was nothing significant in the fact that Louise, dreamy and distraught, stood at her bedroom bureau that night, scribbling "Washington" here and there over a sheet of paper.
  • There was the tight-clenched old bureau, receding atop like a bad and secret forehead; there was the cumbersome old table with twisted legs, at the bed-side; and there was the box upon it, in which the will had lain.
  • There were religious pictures upon the bureau, prayer-books, and some volumes of essays of a spiritual nature were scattered about--nothing was there to indicate that the occupant was anything but a simple, sweet child of innocence except--
  • (When a tornado watch is announced during the approach of a hurricane, however, keep watching the sky to the east.) If you see any revolving, funnel-shaped clouds, report them by telephone immediately to your local police department, sheriff's office or Weather Bureau office.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Crash test dummy, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Interstate 15 in Arizona, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hillary Clinton, License CC BY-SA 4.0