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   till

   /tɪl/

   preposition

   • 1. up to (the point in time or the event mentioned); until: "I went to bed at 8 last night and slept till 6.30" Similar untilup toup tillup untilas late asup to the time of/thatuntil such time aspendingthroughbeforeprior toprevious toup tountilup untilup tillearlier thanin advance ofante-pre-Opposite beyondafterafter

   conjunction

   • 1. up to the point in time or the event mentioned; until: "he did not enter the town till it was nearly dark"

   Word Origin Old Englishtil, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse til ‘to’, also ultimately to till3.

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   What is the difference between till and till?

   • In spoken English and informal written English, till is often used instead of until. They had to wait till Monday to ring the bank manager. I've survived till now, and will go on doing so without help from you. Till is also a conjunction. I hadn't left home till I was nineteen. They slept till the alarm bleeper woke them at four.

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   Where did the word 'till' come from?

   • Coming from prehistoric German, "Till" passed into old English as meaning a goal or fixed point in either space or time.

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   Is till an abbreviation of until?

   • Many assume that till is an abbreviated form of until. In fact, it is a distinct word that existed in English at least a century before until, both as a preposition meaning “to” and as a conjunction meaning “until.” It has seen continuous use in English since the 12th century and is a perfectly legitimate synonym of until.

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   What is a till in a shop?

   • In a shop or other place of business, a till is a counter or cash register where money is kept, and where customers pay for what they have bought. ...long queues at tills that make customers angry. A till is the drawer of a cash register, in which the money is kept. He checked the register. There was money in the till.

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   What does till do?

   • Grow. Learn. Thrive. TILL is a not-for-profit human service agency established in 1980 with a mission to create community-based residential, day, vocational, clinical and support services to help people reach their full potential and attain an optimal quality of life.

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   Is 'till' a German word?

   • It makes much more sense that "till" would have been contracted with the Germanic word "und" (also pronounced unt) meaning "and". More or less, the two together would literally translate to "and to such point". Therefore the statement "You have until March 1st to pay your rent of $100 to avoid eviction."

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   The noun till means the same as "cash register." When you work at the store long enough, they'll let you operate the till.

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