1An international system of telegraphy with printed messages transmitted and received by teleprinters using the public telecommunications network.

1. 1.1A telex machine.
   ‘I found it waiting on the telex in Mitch's office’
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   • ‘As late as the 1980s we were forced to return to Managua or Luanda or some other relatively peaceful place in order to reach a telex machine, a telephone line or a satellite dish.’
   • ‘We had to rely upon faxes and the old telex machine, and telephone calls at different times through different time zones.’
   • ‘In a forgotten warehouse, 500 telex machines were discovered which had been bought by the previous Chilean government but left unused because nobody knew what to do with them.’
   • ‘Even today, most capital transfers are communicated through faxes or telex machines and authenticated with pen-and-ink signatures.’
   • ‘Ancient telex machines lie defunct, the lobby floors often stink of petrol - used as a cheap detergent - and windows still have anti-bomb tape on them.’
   • ‘The telex machine in the plant's foreign trade office was buzzing with communications from companies in Europe, America and the Far East.’
2. 1.2A message sent by telex.
   ‘I received your telex yesterday’
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   • ‘Six days after the crash, the company sent an emergency telex grounding all flights, but the families' solicitor asked if it should have been sent earlier.’
   • ‘After sending the telex, he returned to the rescue operation, climbing into a hole to help a child.’
   • ‘They were the days of letters, telexes, faxes and telegrams.’
   • ‘That evening I received a telex from my colleague at the Western Australian Museum, passing on some interesting news items from home.’
   • ‘The accused had based his conviction on a telex he had received in October 1944 from the Regional office of the Gestapo.’
   • ‘As early as the 1970s, electronic communication was developing, with the telex superseding the humble letter as the preferred means of placing business orders.’
   • ‘The first day I couldn't get a telex because all the lines were down.’
   • ‘However, a telex from Stalin presenting Eisenstein as a traitor to Russia also weighed heavily on the project.’
   • ‘An example is furnished by a telex dispatched by the originator's bank to its correspondent with a request that the funds be credited to the beneficiary's account with the beneficiary's bank.’
   • ‘For the reasons given earlier, an oral contract evidenced only by a re-cap telex, does not seem to me to qualify for this purpose.’
   • ‘The Court of Appeal concluded that the telex was effective on receipt as the plaintiffs had been told that it was the defendants ordinary practice to read such telexes immediately.’
   • ‘The telexes could be used to obtain intelligence about where scarcities were worst, and where people were still working who could alleviate them.’
   • ‘In the radio room, the Russian operator monitors the clatter of incoming telexes, faxes, weather forecasts and ice reports.’
   • ‘Finally, a telegraphic or telex message is not recorded, except by the sending and recipient banks.’
   • ‘Some encryption machines protect telephone calls, others protect fax and Telex messages, and still others protect computer communications.’
   • ‘To my mind that telex is a plain acceptance of the amount demanded, since it plainly describes the amount as undisputed.’
   • ‘The happiest day of my life was when I received the telex that said I had been accepted as an SAA pilot.’

1Communicate with (someone) by telex.

1. 1.1Send (a message) by telex.
   ‘telexing a 70 page document is a time-consuming process’
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   • ‘You had to run out to find foreign newspapers, or have them laboriously telexed from London or Paris.’
   • ‘The advantage of resorting to a sea waybill is that it avoids the problems arising from the late arrival of the documentation; its contents can be telexed to the destination.’