An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news.
An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed).
(chiefly Britain) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers.
“Like their colleagues in the tourism bureau, the editors of BohÃo pushed to construct a facilitated discovery for potential investors and travelers.”
“They later found that the writing bureau had been broken into but nothing has been stolen.”
“This bureau should shoulder the responsibility for all the criminal correction and criminal prevention affairs.”
“There is no way of avoiding the tedious bureaucracy present, at different levels, in this part of the world.”
“Centralized registration would involve more paperwork, more computerization, and more tedious bureaucracy.”
“Only a special stratum of bureaucrats, those who are not administrative officials, make up the core of the governing bureaucracy, or, in my terminology, of the new class. This is actually a party or political bureaucracy.”
bureaucratese
(informal, pejorative) A style of language, typically used by bureaucrats, that involves jargon or euphemism to the detriment of broader understanding.
(informal, pejorative) Wordy, ostentatious talk or writing that resembles bureaucratic writing.
“During the board meeting, the CEO used an excessive amount of bureaucratese, making it difficult for the employees to fully understand the company's new strategic plan.”
“This sounds like bureaucratese for public relations, so I would feel pretty safe adding this into the overhead costs.”
“Couched in first-class bureaucratese, the document lists the programs that city staff recommend be slashed.”
“Many unions have suffered from years of bureaucratisation by right wing careerists and New Labour sycophants.”
“It was he who first identified the growing danger posed to the October Revolution by the bureaucratisation of the Soviet party and state apparatus.”
“Having conquered New Zealand years ago the army is beginning to lose its elan and ferocity and is drifting into empty formalism and bureaucratisation.”
“Latour supports the works done by scientists, politicians, economists, burocrats, and moralists.”
“They might only be burocrats doing their jobs but it only takes the odd one or two to let the side down for all the others who are doing a sterling job.”