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Definition of factor

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Factor (n.) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker..

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Agency :: Agency (n.) The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another..

Account :: Account (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts..

Factored :: Factored (imp. & p. p.) of Facto.

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Fallowness :: Fallowness (n.) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered..

Rhinal :: Rhinal (a.) Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.

Factor :: Factor (n.) One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent..

Factoring :: Factoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Facto.

Factor :: Factor (n.) One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product..

Encenia :: Encenia (n. pl.) A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors..

Invoice :: Invoice (n.) A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed..

Bedehouse :: Bedehouse (n.) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

Armory :: Armory (n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords..

Gibbet :: Gibbet (n.) A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning..

Factory :: Factory (n.) A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers..

Coefficient :: Coefficient (n.) A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction..

Piety :: Piety (n.) Duty; dutifulness; filial reverence and devotion; affectionate reverence and service shown toward parents, relatives, benefactors, country, etc..

Account :: Account (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty..

Factor :: Factor (v. t.) To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

Factoress :: Factoress (n.) A factor who is a woman.