ers

¹ American  

[urs, airs] / ɜrs, ɛərs /

noun

1. ervil.

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ERS ² American  

Or E.R.S.

1. Emergency Radio Service.

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-ers ³ American  

1. a semantically empty suffix that creates informal variations of more neutral nouns and adjectives by processes of truncation identical to those of -er (champers; preggers; starkers ); unlike that suffix, however, -ers is apparently productive, and words formed with it do not appear to belong to a restricted linguistic register, as university slang.

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ERS British  

abbreviation

1. earnings related supplement

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Etymology

Origin of ers¹

Middle French < Old Provençal < Late Latin ervus, variant of Latin ervum. See ervil

Origin of -ers³

Perhaps a conflation of -er ⁷ with the final element of bonkers and crackers in the sense “wild, crazy” (unless these words themselves contain this suffix); -s ³

Example Sentences

According to the government, ERS enables eligible foreign nationals to be taken out of prison early for the sole purpose of removal or deportation from the UK.

From BBC

Last year, the government introduced changes to ERS allowing prisoners with no right to be in the country to face deportation 30% into their prison term, rather than the previous 50%.

From BBC

Summer said the letter confirmed that Cielevicius was eligible for release under ERS as a foreign national who had served 30% of his custodial sentence.

From BBC

His customers include older baby boomers and Gen X‑ers nostalgic for the players of their childhood, but most have been millennials like himself, drawn to something tactile and analog in an era when everything else disappears into the digital ether.

From Los Angeles Times

Gen Z is still a far more liberal generation than Gen X–ers or boomers.

From Slate