telex
/ˈtɛlɛks/
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American sound/ˈtɛlɛks/
telex
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te - lex -> telex
Myanmar meaning
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(က) [U] တယ်လက်ရိုက်စက်ဖြင့် ဖုန်းလိုင်းမှတစ်ဆင့် စာပေးပို့လက်ခံနိုင်သော စနစ်။
(ခ) [C] ယင်းသို့ပေးပို့ရရှိသောစာ။ Several telexes arrived this morning.
(ဂ) [C] (infml ) တယ်လက်စက်။
v ~ sth (to sb) တယ်လက်ဖြင့် ဆက်သွယ်သည်။
More examples
- ‘The hotel's 24-hour business centre is on the lobby level and has photocopying, translation, fax, telex, computer word processing and courier services.’
- ‘Telephone, pager, and cellular phone services are available.’
- ‘Transactions are generally concluded over the telephone and confirmed by telex or e-mail between buyers and sellers across whatever distance.’
- ‘The race for news started to accelerate in the 60s and 70s when news providers started to disseminate information globally by telex.’
- ‘Then came telex, followed by the fax machine and now the Internet.’
- ‘It will additionally support fax, or EDI transmissions…’
- ‘The decision was notified to Mr Smith in London, by telex dated 19th November, on the basis that it would be what was described as ‘a one time transaction’.’
- ‘Signature is a typical form of authentication but there may be other avenues such as a PIN, a so-called electronic signature, tested telex, or SWIFT message.’
- ‘The first of the telex exchanges which led to the London contract included in clause 8 provision that payment should be ‘without discount, withholding or setoff’.’
- ‘Thinking that he knew what was going on at the front - that the radio, teletype, and telex were giving him up-to-the-minute reports - Hitler would send detailed orders.’
- ‘It featured a high density of interaction, not least through the secure telex network.’
- ‘The party invoking force majeur, shall give prompt notice to the other party by fax, telex followed by registered letter stating the kind of Force Majeure.’
- ‘And he couldn't receive information over the sat phone because he couldn't talk, so he communicated via telex and received instructions.’
- ‘Traffic around the telex network had grown from an initial 2, 000-3, 000 telegrams a year to some 9, 000 in 1989.’
- ‘Since the notice here was tendered by telex, we do not know the form of the acceptance.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
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