Telecopier

[ tel-i-kop-ee-er ]

Trademark.

1. a brand name for a device used in facsimile transmission to transmit and reproduce documents, drawings, etc. Compare facsimile ( def 2 ).

Example Sentences

That’s right, young ’uns, in the pre-Internet era, sportswriters wrote their stories on portable typewriters; they then handed me each page as they finished it, and, with a telecopier — a Stone Age-era fax machine — I’d send it to the newspaper.

From Washington Post

Since the telephone link was poor, Haig said that he would send a wire by a secure radiophone telecopier that Bush should read immediately.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the same day, a telecopier machine at the Department of Transportation 16 blocks away will simultaneously dispatch a 6�-page message to the 50 states, telling each how much federal money it can spend from the new 5�-per-gal. increase in the gasoline tax.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last year Boeing's Washington representative, James O'Rourke, foolishly sent some classified papers via telecopier over an open telephone line.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some, like Fiat, are arranging to send orders by Telecopier.

From Time Magazine Archive