ers

[ urs, airs ]

noun

Origin of ers

1
Middle French <Old Provençal <Late Latin ervus, variant of Latin ervum. See ervil

Other definitions for ERS (2 of 3)

ERS

  1. Emergency Radio Service.

Other definitions for -ers (3 of 3)

-ers

  1. a semantically empty suffix that creates informal variations of more neutral nouns and adjectives by processes of truncation identical to those of -er7 (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.

Origin of -ers

3
Perhaps a conflation of -er7 with the final element of bonkers and crackers in the sense “wild, crazy” (unless these words themselves contain this suffix); cf. -s3

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British Dictionary definitions for ERS

ERS

abbreviation for
  1. earnings related supplement

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