ERS

¹

Or E.R.S.

1. Emergency Radio Service.

-ers

²

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.

ers

³

[urs, airs]

noun

1. ervil.

ERS

abbreviation

1. earnings related supplement

Word History and Origins

Origin of ERS¹

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

Origin of ERS²

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

Example Sentences

The patchwork system that supplies blood and blood products to operating rooms, delivery suites, and ERs like mine can be frighteningly brittle.

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All those motherf***ers who are out there arresting U.S. citizens, violating habeas corpus and bending rules to enforce a police state deserve a lot more than a sandwich dumped on them.

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And just when we thought hanging out was dead, Gen Z–ers seem to have rediscovered the joy of going out with friends, pounding a marg, and eating a gut-busting quantity of food.

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David Balmer, a waste expert from ERS Remediation, told the Disclosure programme: "You're looking at the equivalent of between 80 and 100 trucks minimum running seven days a week to take this material to a facility in England or abroad."

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My experience of this ERS production is unique to the moment of my encounter.

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