factor
Forms
- Plural
- factors
- present (v1)
- factor
- past (v2)
- factored
- past participle (v3)
- factored
- present participle
- factoring
- 3rd person singular
- factors
Definitions
1.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.
- Motor factors, Good factors will stock all of the more important components which wear out relatively quickly.
2.A commission agent.
3.A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
4.A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
1.To be a product of other objects.
2.To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
3.To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
4.To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #782
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle French facteur
From Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”)
From factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).