Bureau

A term used by older people in Maine for a dresser

My bra is in the top drawer of the bureau.

by buckeyenation1 October 16, 2008

Bureaucracy

The natural expression of the the human mind’s proclivity to gravitate toward ever increasing complexity.

“Inevitably, bureaucracy seeks to complicate the very hallmark of truth itself; simplicity.”

by Sloan007 February 1, 2020

credit bureau

An organization that specializes in providing damaging information on citizens to employers, banks, credit card companies and prospective spouses. The information doesn't have to be true, or even the same person as listed with them.

He couldn't get a wife or buy a house because the credit bureau had told the banks he had bad credit and ruined his reputation.

by Marlaette May 22, 2008

bureauclast

(noun): Someone appointed to help destroy or dismantle the agency for which he or she ostensibly works.

All indications point to Scott Pruitt being a bureauclast hired specifically to dismember the Environmental Protection Agency.

by KeseyFan February 25, 2017

Better Business Bureau

An abstraction, or a layer of complexity, formulated by businesses, by which to channel the angst of their customers into endless bureaucratic processes with no other purpose than to make the aggrieved customers go away.

Filing a complaint with the better business bureau sure was a waste of time.

by Mario R. Sanchez September 11, 2008

bureaucramancy

The practice of malicious and deceptive arts within an institution or company for the purposes of spite, cronyism, or sabotage.

The difference between necromancy and bureaucramancy is that whereas the dead used to have souls, bureaucrats never did.

by skyywise October 27, 2005

buress

a complete and utter retard who has a chicken-like body

Buress is such a chicken.

by coooollllio September 6, 2014