If you telex a message to someone, you send it to them by telex. The embassy says it has telexed their demands to the foreign ministry They telexed British Airways. International telegraphic message-transfer service consisting of a network of teleprinters. Subscribers to a telex service can exchange textual communications and data directly with one another. Telex systems originated in Europe in the early 1930s and were widely used for several decades. The ability to conduct high-speed digital communication over regular telephone lines led to a decline in the use of telex, but it is still used as a data transmission service for applications in which high transmission speeds are not necessary or in areas where more modern data equipment is not available
Short for “teleprinter exchange,” telexes were messages transmitted over a global wire system by big, noisy machines that looked like typewriters They were a forerunner to fax machines, but more sophisticated than telegrams, which had to be sent to a main telegraph office, translated from dots and dashes, then hand-delivered to the receiver Telex machines were easily wired and not too expensive, so they were commonly found in offices that conducted international business
A telex is a message that you send or that has been received and printed by telex
Telex is an international system of sending written messages. Messages are converted into signals which are transmitted, either by electricity or by radio signals, and then printed out by a machine in another place
System of telegraphy in which printed messages or signals are sent from and to teleprinters connected to a public telecommunication network
Telegraphic Transfer or Telex Transfer, often abbreviated to TT, is an historic term used to refer to an electronic means of transferring funds overseas. A transfer charge is collected while sending money