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English
Etymology
Representing a Scottish pronunciation of bureau.
Pronunciation
Noun
buroo (plural buroos)
- (Scotland, slang) The Labour Bureau; hence, unemployment benefits; the dole.
- 193?, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ‘Forsaken’, Smeddum, Canongate 2001:
- Johnny kenned at once the coarse brute was drunk same as father was Friday nights when he got his money from the Broo.
1990, Alasdair Gray, “Quiet People”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 461:‘Anyway, MacFee is very good at stripping lead and copper and zinc and iron from old factories and houses that are going to be demolished – folk pay him to do that, and when work is short he never goes on the burroo.
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Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from French bureau.
Pronunciation
Noun
buroo (accusative singular buroon, plural burooj, accusative plural buroojn)
- (government) bureau
- Synonyms: kontoro, oficejo