Definition of telex in English:

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

1. 1.1count noun A device used for telex.
   ‘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. 1.2count noun A 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.’