to hold an office at pleasure: to hold it indefinitely until it is revoked

Admiral Lee, aboard USS Washington, can content himself with the fact that his ship has claimed the scalp, or helped claim the scalp, of three out of the four Kongō class, and has landed meaningful hits on Nagato and Yamato as well, making it the single most successful U.S. battleship in history.

Clean up your room, or else!

Such contracts will also fill in the inapplicabilities to debit transfers.