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

(-)

(Scotland, slang) The Labour Bureau; hence, unemployment benefits; the dole.

*193? , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), ‘Forsaken’, Smeddum , Canongate 2001:

*:Johnny kenned at once the coarse brute was drunk same as father was Friday nights when he got his money from the Broo .

*1990 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Quiet People’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 461:

*:‘Anyway, MacFee is very good at stripping lead and copper and zinc and iron from old factories and houses that are going to be demolished – folk pay him to do that, and when work is short he never goes on the burroo .