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# bureau — English to French

How English *bureau* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [bureau in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/bureau/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: bureau (94 144), bureaus (780). By style: everyday 3 · parliamentary 1 711 · legal and administrative 3 722 · UN documents 89 488.

## bureau

Used about 79 405 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 497 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 333 · UN documents ≈ 74 573). Forms: bureau, bureaux.

- The US Justice Department and the Federal **Bureau** of Investigation (FBI) have targeted American Muslims in abusive counterterrorism “sting operations” based on religious and ethnic identity, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights Institute said.
  Le Ministère de la Justice des États-Unis et le **Bureau** fédéral d’investigation (FBI) ont pris pour cible des musulmans américains lors d’opérations d’infiltration abusives menées dans le cadre de la lutte antiterroriste et basées sur des critères d’identité religieuse et ethnique, ont affirmé Human Rights Watch et l'Institut des droits de l'homme.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Malape and Malape · checked, community translation · [\#3396378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3396378) [\#3396279](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3396279))

- I shall make that request known to the **Bureau**.
  - Je saisirai le **Bureau** de cette demande.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 679076)

- **Bureaus** of special operations
  **Bureaux** des opérations spéciales
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2271984)

- Regional **bureaus**, BDP, BCPR
  **Bureaux** régionaux, BPD, BCPR
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 26154900)

- These were the limitations set on the **Bureau**'s decision.
  Telles sont exactement les limites de la décision du **Bureau**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1785776)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- The **bureau** drawer has several compartments.
  Le tiroir de la commode comporte plusieurs compartiments.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2268010](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2268010) [\#10266066](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10266066))

- I made a lot of trips to the employment **bureau** before I found a job.
  Je me suis rendu de nombreuses fois à l'agence pour l'emploi avant de trouver un travail.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5336038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5336038) [\#10373813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10373813))

- It think I should perhaps refer this matter to the competent committee or even to the **Bureau**.
  Je pense que je devrais en parler à la commission compétente ou tout d'abord transmettre cette demande au Président du Parlement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1875364)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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