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= , first= , last= , author=Alejandro López de Haro, Jr. , authorlink= , title=Fidel Castro Steps Down , site=Ground Report citation , 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. }}

Noun

(biros)

A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.

* 1993 , , 2008, unnumbered page,

Frank's Biro taps delicately at the topmost of the little yellow notes.

(by extension, UK, AU, NZ) Any ballpoint pen.

* 2007 , , The Anatomy of Wings , page 250,

Massimo's finger was poised above red on his multi-coloured biro like a kangaroo frozen in headlights.

(by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.

* 2011 , Shannon Lush, Jennifer Fleming, Completely Spotless , unnumbered page,

‘My very creative 2-year-old son used my good friend?s white polyester Roman blinds as a canvas,’ says Jacqui. They?re now covered in blue biro'. And although my friend isn?t too bothered by the ' biro , I am! Can you help??