0 (especially in the past) a piece of paper with a message sent by telegraph
2 a message that is sent using wires that carry electrical signals and then printed out. Telegrams have now been replaced by faxes and email.
Yet he sees the right-wing agitation in support of the telegram only as a reaction, not as a part of the cause.
The letters and telegrams sent to and fro, complete with ever-changing financial figures, are quoted extensively.
We finally received a telegram saying that rice had been delivered at a certain place.
Monthly reports, telegrams, letters etc. which mention interethnic clashes, assassinations or thefts usually mention neither the social background of the perpetrators nor their motives.
In the present case, the telegram was properly signed and approved on every level until it reached the top.
Typically, the words kept for headlines and telegrams are the words that are usually stressed in a sentence.
This was the beginning of a barrage of petitions, letters, and telegrams containing accusations and counteraccusations.
He believed that just as the postal and telegraphic services generated letters and telegrams, a telephone transmission would ultimately require a "record" to be useful to business.