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ers

Pronunciation: (ûrs, ârs), [key]
—n.
ervil.

ERS

Emergency Radio Service. Also,E.R.S.

-ers

a semantically empty suffix that creates informal variations of more neutral nouns and adjectives by processes of truncation identical to those of -er ⁷ (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.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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