Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense telexes, present participle telexing, past tense, past participle telexed1. uncountable nounTelex is an international system used especially in the past for 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.
2. countable nounA telex is a machine that transmits and receives telex messages.
3. countable nounA telex is a message that you send or that has been received and printed by telex.
She sent him a telex and flew to Los Angeles to meet him.
4. verbIf 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. [VERB noun + to]
They telexed their parents. [VERB noun]