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factor

Pronunciation: /ˈfæk.tə/

The English word “factor” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
  2. An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
  3. A commission agent.
  4. A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
  5. A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
  6. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
  7. Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
  8. Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
  9. A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
  10. A steward or bailiff of an estate.

verb

  1. To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
  2. To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
  3. To be a product of other objects.
  4. To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English factour, from Middle French facteur, Anglo-Norman factour, and their etymon Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).

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