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Till

Noun CEFR A2 Common
tɪl

Definitions

  1. glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
  2. A vetch; a tare.
  3. A placename:
    uncountable
  4. A river in Northumberland, England, tributary to the Tweed.
    uncountable
  5. A cash register.
    British
  6. manure or other material used to fertilize land
    dialectal
  7. A river in Wiltshire, England.
    uncountable
  8. A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
  9. A river in Lincolnshire, England.
    uncountable
  10. The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
  11. A surname.
    countable
  12. A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
  13. A tray or drawer in a chest.
    obsolete

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Examples

“I got most of the money to pay⟳ for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait⟳ at the till queue.”
“Pull⟳ all the tills and lock⟳ them in the safe.”
“When you've finished serving that customer could you jump⟳ off please⟳? We need⟳ to take⟳ the till.”
“That said, and I'll put⟳ this down to its newness, the bin lid was a bit snappy, like⟳ Arkwright's till (google that if you're a youngster).”
“My count⟳ of my till was 30 dollars short.”
“Tweed says to Till: "What gars ye rin sae still ?" Till says to Tweed: "Tho ye rin wi' speed⟳ And I rin slaw Whar ye droon ae man,”
“Technically speaking, it’s Lucas Till, the actor playing Tripp, who is far too old to be riding a school bus, not his character in Monster Trucks, who is written as a 16-year-old, maybe 17 tops. But Till does not look⟳ 16, nor 17, nor even 18.”
““How to hide⟳, survive⟳ and use⟳ the urban environment as a sanctuary was a challenge⟳ but the soldiers adapted to the real-life challenges,” ETG Commander Col. Toby Till explained.”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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See also

till money till time till-tapper tillability Tillable Tillage

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