bureau vs chapter

bureau

noun
  • An administrative unit of government; office. 

  • An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed). 

  • An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news. 

  • A chest of drawers for clothes. 

  • A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers. 

chapter

noun
  • An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area. 

  • A community of canons or canonesses. 

  • An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean. 

  • A meeting of certain organized societies or orders. 

  • A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue. 

  • An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons. 

  • A chapter house 

  • A bishop's council. 

  • One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided. 

  • A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts. 

verb
  • To put into a chapter. 

  • To use administrative procedure to remove someone. 

  • To take to task. 

  • To divide into chapters. 

How often have the words bureau and chapter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )