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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024-ure, suffix. - -ure is attached to roots and verbs to form abstract nouns that refer to action, result, and instrument or use:press- + -ure → pressure;legislate + -ure → legislature;fract- + -ure → fracture.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -ure suffix forming nouns - indicating act, process, or result: seizure
- indicating function or office: legislature, prefecture
Etymology: from French, from Latin -ūra URE, - EducationUndergraduate Record Examination.
-ure, - an abstract-noun suffix of action, result, and instrument, occurring in loanwords from French and Latin:pressure; legislature.
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