uptil

English

Etymology

up +‎ til.

Preposition

uptil

(India) Alternative form of up till
- 1974, Planning and Development Department, Punjab Development Review and Prospects, Volumes 3-4, Punjab (Pakistan), page 96:
  About 800 tractors were to be purchased in the scheme but actually 509 tractors were purchased uptil the end of January 1974.
- 1989, Aruna Saxena, Perspectives in Industrial Geography: A Case Study of an Industrial City of Uttar Pradesh, Concept Publishing Company, page 61:
  In the north this area extends uptil New Kavi Nagar, in the south uptil national Bye-pass Road, in the east uptil municipal limits […]
- 1988, Bameshwar Singh, Congress Ministries Under the High Command Shadow, Bihar (India): Commonwealth Publishers, page 88:
  As has been seen earlier Mrs. Indira Gandhi was elected Congress President in February 1959 and continued to hold the office uptil December 1961.

Usage notes

Standard in Indian English

Anagrams

TULIP, lit up, tulip, uplit

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