Bureau vs Drawer - What's the difference?
bureau | drawer |
Office.
Desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
(US) for clothes.
An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
(non-gloss definition); one who draws.
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An artist who primarily makes drawings.
(banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
A barman; a man who draws the beer from the taps.
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Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.(w)
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As a proper noun bureau
is a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist louis Édouard bureau (1830-1918).As a noun drawer is
an open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.bureau
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Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* bureau de change * QSL bureaudrawer
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(wikipedia drawer)Noun
(en noun)Federal Court Finds Texas Voting Maps Discriminatory”, NYTimes.com :
- Lawyers for Mr. Abbott argued that the maps were drawn to help Republicans maintain power but not to discriminate, and that drawers did not know where district offices were located.
- When the good lieutenant applied himself to the door, he applied himself likewise to the bell; and the drawer immediately attending, he dispatched him for a file of musqueteers and a surgeon.
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Pulling the Strings, passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer . He had disappeared.}}