| slovo | definícia |
bureau
(mass) | bureau
- kancelária |
bureau
(encz) | bureau,kancelář n: Zdeněk Brož |
bureau
(encz) | bureau,úřad n: Zdeněk Brož |
Bureau
(gcide) | Bureau \Bu"reau\, n.; pl. E. Bureaus, F. Bureaux. [F. bureau
a writing table, desk, office, OF., drugget, with which a
writing table was often covered, equiv. to F. bure, and fr.
OF. buire dark brown, the stuff being named from its color,
fr. L. burrus red, fr. Gr. ? flame-colored, prob. fr. ? fire.
See Fire, n., and cf. Borel, n.]
1. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for
papers. --Swift.
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2. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where
business requiring writing is transacted.
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3. 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.
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Note: On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in
most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the
Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England
and America, the term is confined to inferior and
subordinate departments; as, the "Pension Bureau," a
subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [Obs.]
In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the
trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
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4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an
ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.]
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Bureau system. See Bureaucracy.
Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime
underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all
over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed
to Paris in 1830, and re["e]stablished in Brussels in
1870.
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bureau
(wn) | bureau
n 1: an administrative unit of government; "the Central
Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of
Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn:
agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau,
office, authority]
2: furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: {chest of
drawers}, chest, bureau, dresser] |
BUREAU
(bouvier) | BUREAU. A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is
used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been
borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the
secretary of state. Vide Merl. Repert. h. t.
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bureaucracy
(mass) | bureaucracy
- byrokracia |
bureaucratic
(mass) | bureaucratic
- byrokratický |
bureaucratism
(mass) | bureaucratism
- byrokratizmus |
bureaus
(mass) | bureaus
- kancelárie |
bureaux
(mass) | bureaux
- kancelária |
bureaucracies
(encz) | bureaucracies,byrokracie pl. Zdeněk Brož |
bureaucracy
(encz) | bureaucracy,byrokracie n: Zdeněk Brož |
bureaucrat
(encz) | bureaucrat,byrokrat n: Zdeněk Brož |
bureaucratic
(encz) | bureaucratic,byrokratický Pavel Machek |
bureaucratically
(encz) | bureaucratically,byrokraticky adv: Zdeněk Brož |
bureaucratisation
(encz) | bureaucratisation,byrokratizace n: Zdeněk Brož |
bureaucratism
(encz) | bureaucratism,byrokratismus Zdeněk Brož |
bureaucratization
(encz) | bureaucratization,byrokratizace n: Zdeněk Brož |
bureaucrats
(encz) | bureaucrats,byrokrati n: Zdeněk Brož |
bureaux
(encz) | bureaux,kancelář n: Zdeněk Brož |
credit bureau
(encz) | credit bureau, n: |
european environmental bureau
(encz) | European Environmental Bureau,EEB European Environmental
Bureau [eko.] RNDr. Pavel PiskačEuropean Environmental Bureau,European Environmental Bureau
EEB [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
exchange bureau
(encz) | exchange bureau, |
federal bureau of investigation
(encz) | Federal Bureau of Investigation,americký federální vyšetřovací
úřad [zkr.] Petr Prášek |
service bureau
(encz) | service bureau, n: |
weather bureau
(encz) | weather bureau, |
eeb european environmental bureau
(czen) | EEB European Environmental Bureau,European Environmental
Bureau[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
european environmental bureau eeb
(czen) | European Environmental Bureau EEB,European Environmental
Bureau[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
Bureau
(gcide) | Bureau \Bu"reau\, n.; pl. E. Bureaus, F. Bureaux. [F. bureau
a writing table, desk, office, OF., drugget, with which a
writing table was often covered, equiv. to F. bure, and fr.
OF. buire dark brown, the stuff being named from its color,
fr. L. burrus red, fr. Gr. ? flame-colored, prob. fr. ? fire.
See Fire, n., and cf. Borel, n.]
1. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for
papers. --Swift.
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2. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where
business requiring writing is transacted.
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3. 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.
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Note: On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in
most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the
Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England
and America, the term is confined to inferior and
subordinate departments; as, the "Pension Bureau," a
subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [Obs.]
In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the
trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
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4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an
ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.]
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Bureau system. See Bureaucracy.
Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime
underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all
over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed
to Paris in 1830, and re["e]stablished in Brussels in
1870.
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Bureau system
(gcide) | Bureau \Bu"reau\, n.; pl. E. Bureaus, F. Bureaux. [F. bureau
a writing table, desk, office, OF., drugget, with which a
writing table was often covered, equiv. to F. bure, and fr.
OF. buire dark brown, the stuff being named from its color,
fr. L. burrus red, fr. Gr. ? flame-colored, prob. fr. ? fire.
See Fire, n., and cf. Borel, n.]
1. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for
papers. --Swift.
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2. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where
business requiring writing is transacted.
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3. 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.
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Note: On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in
most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the
Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England
and America, the term is confined to inferior and
subordinate departments; as, the "Pension Bureau," a
subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [Obs.]
In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the
trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
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4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an
ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.]
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Bureau system. See Bureaucracy.
Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime
underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all
over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed
to Paris in 1830, and re["e]stablished in Brussels in
1870.
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Bureau Veritas
(gcide) | Bureau \Bu"reau\, n.; pl. E. Bureaus, F. Bureaux. [F. bureau
a writing table, desk, office, OF., drugget, with which a
writing table was often covered, equiv. to F. bure, and fr.
OF. buire dark brown, the stuff being named from its color,
fr. L. burrus red, fr. Gr. ? flame-colored, prob. fr. ? fire.
See Fire, n., and cf. Borel, n.]
1. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for
papers. --Swift.
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2. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where
business requiring writing is transacted.
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3. 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.
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Note: On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in
most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the
Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England
and America, the term is confined to inferior and
subordinate departments; as, the "Pension Bureau," a
subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [Obs.]
In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the
trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
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4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an
ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.]
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Bureau system. See Bureaucracy.
Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime
underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all
over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed
to Paris in 1830, and re["e]stablished in Brussels in
1870.
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Bureaucracy
(gcide) | Bureaucracy \Bu*reau"cra*cy\, n. [Bureau + Gr. ? to be strong,
to govern, ? strength: cf. F. bureaucratie.]
1. 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.
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2. Government officials, collectively; -- used especially of
nonelected government officials.
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Bureaucrat
(gcide) | Bureaucrat \Bu*reau"crat\, n.
An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a
narrow and arbitrary routine. --C. Kingsley.
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bureaucratese
(gcide) | bureaucratese \bureaucratese\ n.
the formal and often obscure style of writing characteristic
of some government officials; officialese; -- it is
characterized by euphemisms, circumlocutions, vague
abstractions, and circumlocutions.
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Bureaucratic
(gcide) | Bureaucratic \Bu`reau*crat"ic\, Bureaucratical
\Bu`reau*crat"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. bureaucratique.]
Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.
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Bureaucratical
(gcide) | Bureaucratic \Bu`reau*crat"ic\, Bureaucratical
\Bu`reau*crat"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. bureaucratique.]
Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.
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bureaucratism
(gcide) | bureaucratism \bureaucratism\ n.
nonelective government officials; same as bureaucracy.
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Bureaucratist
(gcide) | Bureaucratist \Bu*reau"cra*tist\, n.
An advocate for, or supporter of, bureaucracy.
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Bureaus
(gcide) | Bureau \Bu"reau\, n.; pl. E. Bureaus, F. Bureaux. [F. bureau
a writing table, desk, office, OF., drugget, with which a
writing table was often covered, equiv. to F. bure, and fr.
OF. buire dark brown, the stuff being named from its color,
fr. L. burrus red, fr. Gr. ? flame-colored, prob. fr. ? fire.
See Fire, n., and cf. Borel, n.]
1. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for
papers. --Swift.
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2. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where
business requiring writing is transacted.
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3. 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.
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Note: On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in
most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the
Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England
and America, the term is confined to inferior and
subordinate departments; as, the "Pension Bureau," a
subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [Obs.]
In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the
trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
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4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an
ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.]
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Bureau system. See Bureaucracy.
Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime
underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all
over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed
to Paris in 1830, and re["e]stablished in Brussels in
1870.
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Bureaux
(gcide) | Bureau \Bu"reau\, n.; pl. E. Bureaus, F. Bureaux. [F. bureau
a writing table, desk, office, OF., drugget, with which a
writing table was often covered, equiv. to F. bure, and fr.
OF. buire dark brown, the stuff being named from its color,
fr. L. burrus red, fr. Gr. ? flame-colored, prob. fr. ? fire.
See Fire, n., and cf. Borel, n.]
1. Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for
papers. --Swift.
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2. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where
business requiring writing is transacted.
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3. 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.
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Note: On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in
most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the
Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England
and America, the term is confined to inferior and
subordinate departments; as, the "Pension Bureau," a
subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [Obs.]
In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the
trial of persons belonging to the king's household.
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4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an
ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.]
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Bureau system. See Bureaucracy.
Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime
underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all
over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed
to Paris in 1830, and re["e]stablished in Brussels in
1870.
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Weather bureau
(gcide) | Weather \Weath"er\, n. [OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar,
OFries. weder, D. weder, we[^e]r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar,
Icel. ve[eth]r, Dan. veir, Sw. v[aum]der wind, air, weather,
and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith.
vetra storm, Russ. vieter', vietr', wind, and E. wind. Cf.
Wither.]
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1. The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or
cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or
cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena;
meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm
weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.
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Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.
--Shak.
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Fair weather cometh out of the north. --Job xxxvii.
22.
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2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation
of the state of the air. --Bacon.
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3. Storm; tempest.
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What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud
My thoughts presage! --Dryden.
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4. A light rain; a shower. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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Stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests.
To make fair weather, to flatter; to give flattering
representations. [R.]
To make good weather, or To make bad weather (Naut.), to
endure a gale well or ill; -- said of a vessel. --Shak.
Under the weather, ill; also, financially embarrassed.
[Colloq. U. S.] --Bartlett.
Weather box. Same as Weather house, below. --Thackeray.
Weather breeder, a fine day which is supposed to presage
foul weather.
Weather bureau, a popular name for the signal service. See
Signal service, under Signal, a. [U. S.]
Weather cloth (Naut.), a long piece of canvas of tarpaulin
used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather
when stowed in the nettings.
Weather door. (Mining) See Trapdoor, 2.
Weather gall. Same as Water gall, 2. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.
Weather house, a mechanical contrivance in the form of a
house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions
by the appearance or retirement of toy images.
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Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought
Devised the weather house, that useful toy!
--Cowper.
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Weather molding, or
Weather moulding (Arch.), a canopy or cornice over a door
or a window, to throw off the rain.
Weather of a windmill sail, the obliquity of the sail, or
the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution.
Weather report, a daily report of meteorological
observations, and of probable changes in the weather;
esp., one published by government authority.
Weather spy, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather.
[R.] --Donne.
Weather strip (Arch.), a strip of wood, rubber, or other
material, applied to an outer door or window so as to
cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or
threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc.
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bureau de change
(wn) | bureau de change
n 1: (French) an establishment where you can exchange foreign
money |
bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms
(wn) | Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
n 1: the law enforcement and tax collection agency of the
Treasury Department that enforces federal laws concerning
alcohol and tobacco products and firearms and explosives
and arson [syn: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms,
ATF] |
bureau of customs
(wn) | Bureau of Customs
n 1: the agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import
tariffs [syn: Bureau of Customs, Customs Bureau,
Customs Service, USCB] |
bureau of diplomatic security
(wn) | Bureau of Diplomatic Security
n 1: the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for
the security of diplomats and embassies overseas [syn:
Bureau of Diplomatic Security, DS] |
bureau of engraving and printing
(wn) | Bureau of Engraving and Printing
n 1: the agency of the Treasury Department that produces
currency |
bureau of intelligence and research
(wn) | Bureau of Intelligence and Research
n 1: an agency that is the primary source in the State
Department for interpretive analyses of global developments
and focal point for policy issues and activities of the
Intelligence Community [syn: {Bureau of Intelligence and
Research}, INR] |
bureau of justice assistance
(wn) | Bureau of Justice Assistance
n 1: the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local
criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and
violence and drug abuse [syn: {Bureau of Justice
Assistance}, BJA] |
bureau of justice statistics
(wn) | Bureau of Justice Statistics
n 1: the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary
source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local
policy makers [syn: Bureau of Justice Statistics, BJS] |
bureau of the census
(wn) | Bureau of the Census
n 1: the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for
taking the census; provides demographic information and
analyses about the population of the United States [syn:
Bureau of the Census, Census Bureau] |
bureaucracy
(wn) | bureaucracy
n 1: nonelective government officials [syn: bureaucracy,
bureaucratism]
2: a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that
are staffed with nonelective officials
3: any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence
on unnecessary procedures and red tape |
bureaucrat
(wn) | bureaucrat
n 1: an official of a bureaucracy [syn: bureaucrat,
administrative official] |
bureaucratic
(wn) | bureaucratic
adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or
bureaucracy; "his bureaucratic behavior annoyed his
colleagues"; "a bureaucratic nightmare" |
bureaucratic procedure
(wn) | bureaucratic procedure
n 1: needlessly time-consuming procedure [syn: {bureaucratic
procedure}, red tape] |
bureaucratically
(wn) | bureaucratically
adv 1: in a bureaucratic manner; "his bureaucratically petty
behavior annoyed her"
2: with respect to bureaucracy; "it's bureaucratically
complicated" |
bureaucratism
(wn) | bureaucratism
n 1: nonelective government officials [syn: bureaucracy,
bureaucratism] |
census bureau
(wn) | Census Bureau
n 1: the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for
taking the census; provides demographic information and
analyses about the population of the United States [syn:
Bureau of the Census, Census Bureau] |
credit bureau
(wn) | credit bureau
n 1: a private firm that maintains consumer credit data files
and provides credit information to authorized users for a
fee |
customs bureau
(wn) | Customs Bureau
n 1: the agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import
tariffs [syn: Bureau of Customs, Customs Bureau,
Customs Service, USCB] |
federal bureau of investigation
(wn) | Federal Bureau of Investigation
n 1: a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal
investigative arm of the Department of Justice [syn:
Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI] |
federal bureau of prisons
(wn) | Federal Bureau of Prisons
n 1: the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that
operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention
facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment
for federal crimes [syn: Federal Bureau of Prisons,
BoP] |
federal security bureau
(wn) | Federal Security Bureau
n 1: the internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian
Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by
Vladimir Putin [syn: Federal Security Bureau, FSB,
Federal Security Service] |
national guard bureau
(wn) | National Guard Bureau
n 1: the agency that administers the Army National Guard and the
Air National Guard; provides liaison between the Army and
the Air Force and various National Guard units [syn:
National Guard Bureau, NGB] |
service bureau
(wn) | service bureau
n 1: a business that makes its facilities available to others
for a fee; achieves economy of scale [syn: {service
agency}, service bureau, service firm] |
weather bureau
(wn) | weather bureau
n 1: an administrative unit responsible for gathering and
interpreting meteorological data for weather study and
forecasts |
bureau international des poids et mesures
(foldoc) | Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
BIPM
(BIPM) The standards body that ensures
world-wide uniformity of measurements and their traceability
to the International System of Units (SI). The BIPM is
based in France and operates with the authority of the
Convention of the Metre, a diplomatic treaty between fifty-one
nations. It operates through a series of committees, whose
members are the national metrology laboratories of the member
states of the convention, and through its own laboratory work.
The BIPM carries out measurement-related research. It takes
part in, and organises, international comparisons of national
measurement standards, and it carries out calibrations for
member states.
BIPM Home (http://www.bipm.org/).
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national bureau of standards
(foldoc) | National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Bureau of Standards
NIST
(NIST, formerly the National Bureau of Standards) A
United States governmental body that helps develop
standards including FIPS.
NIST Home (http://nist.gov/).
(2003-06-04)
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BUREAU
(bouvier) | BUREAU. A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is
used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been
borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the
secretary of state. Vide Merl. Repert. h. t.
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BUREAUCRACY
(bouvier) | BUREAUCRACY. The abuse of official influence in the affairs of government;
corruption. This word has lately been adopted to signify that those persons
who are employed in bureaus abuse their authority by intrigue to promote
their own benefit, or that of friends, rather than the public good. The word
is derived from the French.
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