factor
An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
Noun 4 meanings
An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
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.
Verb 4 meanings
To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
To be a product of other objects.
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”).
FACTOR at a glance
FACTOR has 6 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (F 4 + A 1 + C 3 + T 1 + O 1 + R 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,100 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with factor
All rhymesOne letter away
- FAITOR9
- FAUTOR9
- FICTOR11
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