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Cashier vs Till - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between cashier and till

is that cashier is to dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service while till is to develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.

As nouns the difference between cashier and till

is that cashier is one who works at a till or receives payments while till is a cash register.

As a preposition till is

to.

As a conjunction till is

until, until the time that.

cashier

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) casseren.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
  • *, II.34:
  • His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia , he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it.
  • * 1968 , , “What We Owe Our Parasites” (speech):
  • They found an Army officer who had been a military failure until Bernard Baruch promoted him to General, and who in 1945 should have been able to hope for nothing better than that he could escape a court martial and thus avoid being cashiered , if he could prove that all the atrocities and all the sabotage of American interests of which he had been guilty in Europe had been carried out over his protest and under categorical orders from the President.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p.510:
  • The Directory had been deregulating the economy since Thermidor; but it had not cashiered the police spies on which the Terror had depended, and these allowed the government to keep abreast of the threat.
  • * 2012 , (Jonathan Keates), ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review , 402:
  • Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) caissier.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who works at a till or receives payments.
  • Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.
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    till

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (Northumbrian) til, from (etyl) til.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • To.
  • *, Bk.XVIII, Ch.vii:
  • *:Than the knyghtes parters of the lystis toke up Sir Madore and led hym tylle hys tente.
  • *1854 , Prof. John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Burns , p.194 (Google preview):
  • *:Similar sentiments will recur to everyone familiar with his writings all through them till the very end.
  • Until, up to, as late as (a given time).
  • :
  • :
  • Synonyms
    * (until) til, 'til, until

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • until, until the time that
  • Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.
  • * 1582 , 2:7:
  • that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.
  • * 1846 , Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense :
  • She twirled round and round, / Till she sunk underground,
  • * 1912 , anonymous, Punky Dunk and the Mouse , P.F. Volland & Co.:
  • And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried.
    Synonyms
    * (until) 'til, until

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tillen'' "to draw" from (etyl) ''-tyllan'' (as in ''betyllan'' "to lure, decoy," and ''fortyllan'' "draw away;" related to ''tollian ). Cognate with Albanian . Or alternatively from (etyl) tylle'' "compartment" from (etyl) ''tille'' "compartment, shelter on a ship" from (etyl) '' "plank."

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cash register
  • A removable box within a cash register containing the money
  • Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
  • The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift
  • My count of my till was 30 dollars short.
  • (obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.
  • Etymology 3

    (etyl) tilian

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc)
  • to work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops
  • * Bible, Genesis iii. 23
  • The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
  • to cultivate soil
  • (obsolete) To prepare; to get.
  • Etymology 4

    Unknown, but possibly via etymology 3 (the verb) because alluvial deposit is used as a fertilizer.

    Noun

    (wikipedia till) (en noun)
  • glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
  • (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
  • Etymology 5

    Shortened from lentil.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vetch; a tare.
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