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verb

telefax

send something via a facsimile machine

In a sentence

Six example sentences with telefax, each labelled with its topic.

  • Older suppliers still ask buyers to telefax the signed order, because their accounts office trusts paper more than email.

    Business

  • Clinics used to telefax prescriptions to the pharmacy downstairs, and the curled thermal paper faded within a year.

    Medicine

  • The clerk telefaxed the injunction to chambers at midnight, and the whirring line held long enough for all nine pages.

    Law

  • In the 1980s newsrooms would telefax whole pages to overseas bureaus, and a single story could tie up the line for an hour.

    History

  • Early machines took six minutes to telefax one page, scanning it line by line and squealing over an ordinary phone connection.

    Technology

  • Brokers once had clients telefax signed transfer forms, and a smudged signature could hold up a trade for days.

    Finance

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