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Till

Meaning in sales & retail, with examples

/tɪl/nounCore term

In sales & retail, till means: The machine or counter in a shop where payments are taken and money is kept; in US English, a cash register.

In Turkish: kasa, yazar kasa, kasa çekmecesi

How it is used

UK English, used daily in shops. You work on the till, open or close a till, and pay at the till. At the end of a shift, staff cash up the till, which means counting the money in it. The cash is kept in the till drawer.

Example sentences

  1. Can you cover the till for ten minutes while I take my break?

  2. The till was 50 lira over at the end of the day, so we counted it again.

Common collocations

  • work on the till
  • cash up the till
  • till receipt
  • till drawer
  • open another till
  • cashierA person in a shop, supermarket or bank whose job is to take payments from customers and give them change and receipts.
  • checkoutThe place in a shop where customers pay for their goods, or the final payment step on a website.
  • point of saleThe place and moment where a customer pays for a purchase, such as a shop till or an online checkout, and the system used to record that payment.
  • receiptA printed or digital record that shows what a customer bought, how much they paid and when, used as proof of purchase.

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