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  URE

  Undergraduate Record Examination.
• -ure
  -ure

  an abstract-noun suffix of action, result, and instrument, occurring in loanwords from French and Latin.

URE

¹ American  

1. Undergraduate Record Examination.

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-ure ² American  

1. an abstract-noun suffix of action, result, and instrument, occurring in loanwords from French and Latin.

   pressure; legislature.

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-ure British  

suffix

1. indicating act, process, or result

   seizure

2. indicating function or office

   legislature

   prefecture

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Etymology

Origin of -ure

< French -ure < Latin -ūra