factor

A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.obsolete

• The factor of the trading post bought the furs.

An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.

• My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine.
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A commission agent.

A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.

A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.

One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.

• The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.
• The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.

Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.

• 3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.
• The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.

Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.

• The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.

A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.

• The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless incom

A steward or bailiff of an estate.Scotland

• the factor was so scrupulous, as to keep the whole thing from his master, the lord chamberlain

To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).transitive

To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.transitive

To be a product of other objects.intransitive

To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.transitive