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Till Money Tilled I Cash Customers Fields Preposition

word till
definition
preposition
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.
I hadn't left home till I was nineteen.
They slept till the alarm bleeper woke them at four.
noun
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.
verb
When people till land, they prepare the earth and work on it in order to grow crops.
Workers were singing as they tilled the rice paddy fields.
...freshly tilled fields.
inflections tillstillingtilled
cefr-level B1

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