(linguistics) The property of a grammar's (or, by extension, a language's) being ergative; the attribute of possessing a grammatical pattern such that the object of a transitive verb is treated the same way as the subject of an intransitive one, while the subject of the transitive verb is treated differently.

plural of ergative

plural of ERG

present participle of erg

simple past tense and past participle of erg

(pharmacology) Used to form names of ergot alkaloid derivatives.

(grammar) Synonym of ergativity

Ellipsis of ergative case (“a grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages”). / An ergative verb or other expression.

(UK politics) Initialism of European Research Group. (a Eurosceptic/pro-Brexit publicly funded political activist group subdivision of the UK Conservatives)

(chemistry) Initialism of electron-releasing group. / (business) Initialism of employee resource group.