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ERPO

ERPO is the acronym of extreme risk protection order.

Meaning of extreme risk protection order

Noun

extreme risk protection order (plural extreme risk protection orders)

  1. (neologism) A court order issued upon petition of a law enforcement officer, family member, or household member that temporarily removes access to firearms from a person shown to be a danger to himself or herself or to others.
    • Extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws, sometimes known as gun violence restraining order or "red-flag" laws, are risk-based, temporary, and preemptive protective orders that authorize the removal of firearms from individuals determined to be at risk for committing gun violence against others or...2023 January 10, “The Effects of Extreme Risk Protection Orders”, in RAND Corporation
    Synonyms:
    ERPO

Noun capitalized: Erpo

Erpo (plural Erpos)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of ERPO.
    • The bill did not come in a vacuum, but added to Utah’s already second amendment-friendly legislative landscape. The state doesn’t have extreme risk protection orders (Erpo), known as red-flag laws, which allow people such as police officers and family members to petition a judge to have someone’s...2025 September 14, Abené Clayton, “Utah campus open carry law under fresh scrutiny after Charlie Kirk shooting”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2025

Forms of ERPO

pluralERPOs
alternative formErpo
pluralErpos

Questions about ERPO

What is ERPO the acronym of?
ERPO is the acronym of extreme risk protection order.
What part of speech is ERPO?
ERPO is a noun.
What is the plural of ERPO?
The plural of ERPO is ERPOs.

Words near ERPO in the dictionary

  1. Erpeldings
  2. erpetologist
  3. erpetologists
  4. erpetology
  5. ERPing
  6. ERPO
  7. erpobdellid
  8. erpobdellids
  9. erpornis
  10. erpornises
  11. ERPOs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ERPO (page history and authors); Erpo (page history and authors); extreme risk protection order (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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