bureau : Idioms & Phrases

• noun (French) an establishment where you can exchange foreign money
  

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• noun the law enforcement and tax collection agency of the Treasury Department that enforces federal laws concerning alcohol and tobacco products and firearms and explosives and arson
  ATF.
  

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• noun the agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import tariffs
  USCB; Bureau of Customs; Customs Service.
  

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• noun the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas
  DS.
  

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• noun the agency of the Treasury Department that produces currency
  

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• noun an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community
  INR.
  

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• noun the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse
  BJA.
  

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• noun the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers
  BJS.
  

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• noun the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States
  Bureau of the Census.
  

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• . See Bureaucracy.

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• an institution, in the interest of maritime underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed to Paris in 1830, and reëstablished in Brussels in 1870.

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• noun the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States
  Bureau of the Census.
  

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• noun a private firm that maintains consumer credit data files and provides credit information to authorized users for a fee
  

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• noun the agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import tariffs
  USCB; Bureau of Customs; Customs Service.
  

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• noun a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice
  FBI.
  

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• noun the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes
  BoP.
  

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• noun the internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin
  Federal Security Service; FSB.
  

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• noun the agency that administers the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard; provides liaison between the Army and the Air Force and various National Guard units
  NGB.
  

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• noun a business that makes its facilities available to others for a fee; achieves economy of scale
  service firm; service agency.
  

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• noun an administrative unit responsible for gathering and interpreting meteorological data for weather study and forecasts
  

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• a popular name for the signal service. See Signal service, under Signal, a. U.S.

Webster 1913