ERP

See also: Erp and ərp

English

Noun

ERP (countable and uncountable, plural ERPs)

1. (uncountable, telecommunications) Initialism of effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power.
2. (countable, physiology) Initialism of effective refractory period.

   Coordinate terms: ARP, RRP

3. (uncountable, finance, logistics, software) Initialism of enterprise resource planning.
   • 2015 August 6, Dennis O'Reilly, “ERP vs. CRM: What’s the Difference?”, in Forbes‎, United States:

     Businesses of all sizes depend on software to operate. Two of the most important operations of any business are managing its internal resources and staying in close contact with customers. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) products help companies keep their internal operations running smoothly, while customer relationship management (CRM) software maintains and maximizes their interactions with existing and potential customers.

4. (countable, finance) Initialism of equity risk premium.
5. (uncountable, Internet slang) Initialism of erotic roleplay.
   • 2007 September 18, Austin Modine, “World of Warcraft smites den of orc and elf sexual delinquency”, in The Register‎:

     The guild, called Abhorrent Taboo on WoW's Ravenholdt server, attracted gamers through its participation in Erotic Roleplay (ERP). In the case of massive multiplayer online games, this usually involves grinding avatars together to simulate sexual encounters and erotically-charged text chatting.

6. (countable, finance) Initialism of estimated retail price.
7. (countable, neurology) Initialism of event-related potential.

Proper noun

ERP

1. (Singapore, transport) Initialism of Electronic Road Pricing.
   • 2004 Feb, ERP in Singapore - what’s been learnt from five years of operation, page 62:

     Electronic road pricing (ERP)is one of the main tools which is keeping Singapore’s traffic problems within manageable levels.

   • 2010, Simon Richard, Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei, page 569:

     Many car parks are now run using the same in-vehicle unit and cashcard and ERP gantries instead of the coupon system.

   • 2011, Ozge Yalciner Ercoskin, Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities: Creating Smart Cities, page 178:

     However, the term ERP is unique to Singapore, and it serves to differentiate the fact that charges are not collected at physical toll stations but are done automatically on the roadways.

   • 2014 October 1, The Straits Times (online), LTA calls tender for next generation ERP:

     The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has called a tender to develop Singapore's next generation electronic road pricing system. The new system will be based on Global Navigation Satellite System technology.

   • 2016 February 25, Christopher Tan, The Straits Times (Singapore), LTA to roll out next-generation ERP from 2020, NCS-MHI to build system for $556m:

     Singapore has cleared the way for its next-generation Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system, which will have islandwide coverage and the ability to charge according to distance travelled.

Verb

ERP (third-person singular simple present ERPs, present participle ERPing, simple past and past participle ERPed)

1. (Internet slang) To act out erotic roleplay.
   • 2015 January 31, Ashley Brown, “‘He is coming to the wedding’: […]”, in Jessica Enevold, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, editors, Game Love: Essays on Play and Affection, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, section 2 (Show It Like You Mean It: […]), page 125:

     She [M] continues by elaborating that ERPing with C also serves, “as a catalyst for sexual exploration.... I think we’ve been more willing and able to explore our interests together.”

   • 2015 March 20, Ashley ML Brown, quoting Dirty [pseudonym], “ERP IRL”, in Sexuality in Role-Playing Games (Routledge Advances in Game Studies), New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, page 111:

     Well suffice to say we all got pretty hot with the session, one of the ladies had never ERPed or done anything sexual with another female and was very submissive to both myself and the other female player. I’m very descriptive when I ERP, I like it to be as real and visceral as possible, and they got off on that big time.

   • 2019 May 15, M.M. Chouinard, chapter 42, in The Dancing Girls (Detective Jo Fournier; 1), London: Bookouture, →ISBN, part III:

     “[…] There are even zones on certain servers where people go to ERP.” “ERP?” “Erotic role play.” “You go into these games to have sex?”

   • 2024 January 27, Ryan S. Gladwin, “People are having sex in VR using Bluetooth sex toys”, in Mashable‎, New York, N.Y.: Ziff Davis, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 January 2024:

     Each community hosts a range of different events, some groups prefer chilled meetups while others opt for flashy DJ-events with corners for people to ERP in.

Anagrams

• EPR, PER, Per., RPE, Rep, Rep., per, per-, per., pre, pre-, rep