Word info Synonyms

erm

Speech parts

1. erm - Noun

2. erm - Adjective

3. erm - Interjection

4. Erm - Proper noun

Meaning

(UK) Used in hesitant speech, or to express uncertainty; um, umm.
She was going to, erm... the salon, I think.

(UK) Used to express embarrassment or subtle disagreement.
Erm, I don't think that was supposed to happen.
- Bob would never say something like that!- Erm, he just did.

(computing) Initialism of enterprise relationship management.

(biochemistry) Ellipsis of ERM protein family.

ERM (not comparable)

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of ezrin-radixin-moesin.

ERM

(EU, finance) Initialism of European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

And the thing is, I'm amazed they went with Obama at all, you know, I mean, I thought Hilary would have been a shoo-in, but no. [Shrugs] Apparently America's got an issue with gender, not with race. Huh. So, erm... Bill Bailey

There are going to be no devaluations, no leaving the ERM. We are absolutely committed to the ERM. It is at the centre of our policy. We are going to maintain sterling's parity and we will do whatever is necessary, and I hope there is no doubt about that at all. Norman Lamont

And in the meanwhile, they do not seem to realize that making their entire voting base, erm, poorer is not the golden path to political power, even in our newly socialist society, especially since Bernie Sanders is such a corporate tool. Source: Internet

The markka was added into the ERM system in 1996 and then became a fraction of the euro in 1999, with physical euro money arriving later in 2002. Source: Internet

But why do all the photos look like they have some sort of huge ghostly, erm … … in the center of them? Source: Internet

Fast paced, funny and really quite gruesome, it was Harold Pinter meets Quentin Tarantino, a one-set epic with slick dialogue, super surprises and a, erm, killer soundtrack. Source: Internet

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