Index of English words, starting with "bu"

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

(1) - Bureaucracy (n.) Government officials, collectively.
(2) - Bureaucracy (n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

(1) - Bureaucrat (n.) An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

(1) - Bureaucratic (a.) Alt. of Bureaucratical