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bureau

noun as in branch of an organization

noun as in chest of drawers

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The government’s development bureau said that investigators weren’t singling out bamboo scaffolding as the cause of the fire and that no conclusions have been reached.

Vietnam's weather bureau said it was moving slowly and expected to weaken further before colliding with the coast next week.

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One of the two agencies, anti-corruption bureau Nabu, confirmed that its investigative searches had been authorised and said further details would follow.

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The Indian AAIB, the investigation bureau, soon decided to download the black boxes, using the special equipment from the NTSB, at its lab in Delhi.

In 2022, it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a rebrand, asking to be called either its full name or "the bureau", not the "weather bureau" or "the Bom", given the negative connotations.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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