ers
noun
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ERSEmergency Radio Service.
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-ersa 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 /
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ERS
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ERS
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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
Example Sentences
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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
Then there are all the auxiliary industries: desks to hold computers, luggage to carry them, cleans ers to polish them.
From Time Magazine Archive
They, women as well as men, all sounded like my father with their ers and errers.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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 ● Mar. 4, 2026
My experience of this ERS production is unique to the moment of my encounter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
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
Jess Blair, director of ERS Cymru, the Electoral Reform Society, said the way people can cast their vote "hasn't changed much" over the last century "so we're delighted to see these pilots launching this weekend".
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 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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