uptil

English

Etymology

up +‎ til.

Preposition

uptil

1. (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, Tulip, lit up, tulip, uplit