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Factor | Factor \Fac"tor\, n. [L. factor a doer: cf. F. facteur a factor. See {Fact}.] 1. (Law) 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. --Story. --Wharton. [1913 Webster] My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled That owes me for a hundred tun of wine. --Marlowe. [1913 Webster] 2. A steward or bailiff of an estate. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 3. (Math.) One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, form a product. [1913 Webster] 4. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent; a contributory cause. [1913 Webster +PJC] The materal and dynamical factors of nutrition. --H. Spencer. [1913 Webster] |
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