From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishteleprintertel‧e‧print‧er /ˈteləˌprɪntə $ -ər/ noun [countable] TDTCTa machine that prints messages that have been written on a machine somewhere else and sent along telephone lines SYN teletypewriter American English
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teleprinter• A teleprinter was chattering away in the corner.• You know, the Press Association teleprinter.• Reel after reel of voice recordings and intercepted teleprinter messages were recovered daily.• Some features of the modern teleprinter 1.• This is about the rate of a standard teleprinter, or a Bren machine gun.• Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility.• At first I thought it was the teleprinter again.