Noun
(
en-noun)
an office
* {{quote-web|date=1998-05-13
|year=
|first=
|last=
|author=
|authorlink=
|title=More than 9000 Basotho Gold Miners Retrenched
|site=ANC Dailey News Briefing
citation
|archiveorg=2012-09-14
|accessdate=
|passage=… an employment
buro' said on Tuesday. The retrenchments took place between November last year and March 1998, the Employment ' Buro of Africa's regional manager, Chris Hechter said.
}}
* {{quote-web|date=2008-02-19
|year=
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|last=
|author=Alejandro López de Haro, Jr.
|authorlink=
|title=Fidel Castro Steps Down
|site=Ground Report
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|archiveorg=
|accessdate=2012-09-14
|passage=… a member of both the council of ministers and the Cuban Communist Party's political
buro .
}}
a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
* {{quote-book|year=1902
|year_published=
1998
|edition=HTML
|editor=
|author=Bill Arp
|title=From the Uncivil War to Date
|chapter=
citation
|genre=
|publisher=Univ. of North Carolina
|isbn=
|page=
|passage=Mrs. Arp opens her school and stands 'em up by the
buro to say their lessons.
}}
(US) a for clothes
* {{quote-book|year=1885
|year_published=
2005
|edition=Online
|editor=
|author=Marietta Holley
|title=Sweet Cicely
|chapter=
citation
|genre=
|publisher=The Gutenberg Project
|isbn=
|page=
|passage=And I went up into the spare chamber, and sort o' fixed Philury's things to the best advantage; for I knew the neighbors would be in to look at 'em. And I was a standin' there as calm and happy as the
buro or table, ...
}}
* {{quote-magazine|date=
|year=1998
|month=May
|first=
|last=
|author=Phil D. Zimmerman
|coauthors=
|title=The Stratford, Connecticut, bureau table: A re-examination
|volume=153
|issue=5
|page=740
|magazine=Antiques
|publisher=
|issn=
|url=
|passage=One can only speculate about the appearance of the "New-fashion
buro " advertised for sale in the Boaton Gazette of May 1, 1750.
}}
