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What’s the Plural of Bureau?

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What’s the plural of “bureau”?

Bureau is singular. The plural of bureau is bureaus or bureaux.

👍🏼Usage Note

I have known her for five years. (present perfect)
She knew the answer immediately. (simple past)
I have knew her for five years. (incorrect past participle)
She has know the answer. (incorrect verb form)

Is bureau plural?

Bureau is singular. Bureaus or bureaux is plural.

What’s a bureau?

The word bureau is understood as either “a specialized administrative unit” or  “a low chest of drawers for use in a bedroom.”

Other French Nouns in English

singular plural
bureau bureaux or bureaus
château châteaux or chateaus
beau beaux or beaus
tableau tableaux or tableaus

💡Study Tip

Practice using the verb in different tenses with example sentences to memorize the correct forms.

Examples of bureau used in context

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is helping local police with the investigation, the Washington D.C. office of the bureau revealed on Twitter. Phil Boucher, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022

The Federal Bureau of Investigation

As assistant director of the bureau, Hoover had a front-row seat to the whole pageant. Time, 21 Nov. 2022

The number of pregnant women in custody dropped to 91 during 2020, the most recent year with data reported, according to the bureau. James Fanelli, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022

The agent was able to gain control of them without further incident, according to the bureau. Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2022

Examples of bureaux/bureaus used in context

Bureaux dassistance exist in every commune, and are managed by the combined committees of the hospices and the bureaux de bienfaisance…

European colonization, hampered by the ill-will of the Arab bureaux, then made little progress.

He selects for himself a staff of civilians (the cab-met du ministre), which is divided into bureaux for the despatch of business.

Later, as the state became more complicated, the term was extended over all the government bureaus.

Tim can easily claim to have worked at more foreign bureaux than anyone else in ITV news.

Synonyms of bureau

  • branch
  • division
  • arm
  • department
  • agency
  • service
  • desk

Origin of the word bureau

From etymonline on bureau:

1690s, “desk with drawers for papers, writing desk,” from French bureau (plural bureaux) “office; desk, writing table”. Also from etymonline: “Bureau desks being the common furniture of offices, the meaning expanded by 1720 to “office or place where business is transacted,” and by 1796 to “division of a government.”

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Sources

  1. Definition of bureau.
  2. Synonyms for bureau.
  3. Origin of the word bureau.
  4. Bureau used in sentences.

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