eir

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of excess information rate.
2. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of establishment inspection report: a report issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration following the inspection of a facility where goods under the authority of the agency are manufactured, held, or sold.

det

1. (nonstandard, rare)Belonging to em, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to the singular their and coordinate with his and her.

   “Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn’t clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if ey should trip up in the new usage, ey would only have emself to blame.”

   “A person whose habit is to stand and walk splay-footed may *think* eir feet are straight ahead, when they are actually pointed only slightly less out.”

   “If a mobile user is far from eir home area, ey will pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from* eir home area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area.”

   “The adult worries much less; is cautious, sensible and knows how to protect emself and eir system from attack and error.”

   “And ultimately: I think my readers are mature enough that knowing eir assigned gender is not going to give them an “excuse” to misgender em.”