TWX

[ often twiks ]

1. a teletypewriter exchange service operating in the United States and Canada for the exchange of printed messages.

Word History and Origins

Origin of TWX¹

t(eletype)w(riter) (e)x(change service)

Example Sentences

Communication was by phone — or speakerphone for a group — and TWX, a telex machine.

From Washington Post

District Judge Richard Leon on Thursday authorized AT&T Inc. T 0.93% to complete its purchase of Time Warner Inc., TWX 0.84% after the Justice Department decided not to request a delay that would have held up the combination.

From Wall Street Journal

It was bleeped on air, but ran online, and set off a scramble inside Time Warner Inc., TWX 1.80% the network’s parent company.

From Wall Street Journal

This battle with tech companies was Time Warner ’s TWX 3.61% primary argument in favor of its acquisition by AT&T. As a result, Steve Jobs’s famous deathbed promise to reinvent broadcast TV hasn’t happened.

From Wall Street Journal

Judge Richard J. Leon, in his 172-page opinion Tuesday, allowed AT&T Inc.’s T 0.50% proposed merger with Time Warner Inc., TWX 0.05% to go through, over objections by the U.S.

From Wall Street Journal