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• ers
  ers

  noun

  ervil.
• ERS
  ERS

  Emergency Radio Service.
• -ers
  -ers

  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

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); cf. -s ³

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

ers ERS -ers

But we lived in a way unimaginable to 9-5 ers.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2018

The United States soon got wind of Guevara’s presence and sent CIA agents and military advis ers to assist the regime of René Barrientos.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2017

Roosevelt Island is fantastic: right in the middle of the Potomac River and filled with woodpeck- ers, frogs, marshes, trails, and a seventeen-foot statue of Roosevelt himself, in shining bronze and larger than life.

From MSNBC ● Sep. 9, 2014

Many of the guests were laid-off autoworkers and steelwork ers, the kind of blue-collar Democrats Reagan hopes to lure away from Carter.

From Time Magazine Archive

The curious and envious milled around and he strutted, throwing ers and errers all over the place and under the sad eyes of Uncle Willie.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

You might think - as ERS Cymru does - that a system that allowed you to boot out a party, not just the party's MS, would be preferable.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025

Last year, the government's Nationality and Borders Act extended the early release period allowed under the ERS from nine months to a year.

From BBC ● May 17, 2023

A spokeswoman for ERS said the company had discussed “an investment by a Chinese private equity firm,” but added that it had not yet received any information from the government on a decision.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

Although the ERS data are helping many plan future observations, most cycle 1 data are still locked up and some will remain so until the second half of 2024.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 2, 2022

Paisley had never been a competitive swimmer or a dancer or any of the other -ers that might help someone dance underwater.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2018

A -ers gath- -ing moss no roll- stone.

From Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

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