bureaux
SayBYOOR-ohzUS/ˈbjʊ.ɹoʊz/UK/ˈbjʊ.ɹəʊz/
- 1Plural of bureau. In American English, bureaus is more common.
The newspaper closed three of its foreign bureaux to cut costs.
Officials from both federal bureaux met to settle the dispute over land records.
Note
An irregular plural that adds -x where most nouns add -s, the same pattern as chateaux and plateaux. It serves every countable meaning: government departments, news offices (a paper's foreign bureaux), and furniture, though the furniture itself changes with the country, a writing desk with compartments above the surface in British use and a chest of drawers in American use.
bureaux is a form of bureau
bureau, noun: A government office or administrative unit, such as a department or agency. Full entry
- Spelling
- bureau → bureaux: irregular plural (no -s)
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