Brokernoun
A mediator between a buyer and seller.
Factornoun
(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
âThe factor of the trading post bought the furs.â;
Brokernoun
A stockbroker.
Factornoun
An agent or representative.
â1985 Haynes Owners Workshop Manual, BMWâ;
Brokernoun
A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
Factornoun
(legal)
Brokernoun
(computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
Factornoun
A commission agent.
Brokerverb
(intransitive) To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.
Factornoun
A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
Brokerverb
(transitive) To act as a broker in; to arrange or negotiate.
Factornoun
A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
Brokernoun
One who transacts business for another; an agent.
Factornoun
One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
âThe greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.â; âThe economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.â;
Brokernoun
An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.
Factornoun
(mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
â3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.â; âThe factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.â;
Brokernoun
A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
Factornoun
(root cause analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
âThe launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.â;
Brokernoun
A dealer in secondhand goods.
Factornoun
(economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
Brokernoun
A pimp or procurer.
Factornoun
(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
Brokernoun
a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
Factorverb
(transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
Brokerverb
act as a broker
Factorverb
To be a product of other objects.
Broker
A broker is a person or firm who arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller for a commission when the deal is executed. A broker who also acts as a seller or as a buyer becomes a principal party to the deal.
Factorverb
To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
Factornoun
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.
âMy factor sends me word, a merchant's fledThat owes me for a hundred tun of wine.â;
Factornoun
A steward or bailiff of an estate.
Factornoun
One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, form a product.
Factornoun
One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent; a contributory cause.
âThe materal and dynamical factors of nutrition.â;
Factorverb
To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
Factornoun
anything that contributes causally to a result;
âa number of factors determined the outcomeâ;
Factornoun
an abstract part of something;
âjealousy was a component of his characterâ; âtwo constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmonyâ; âthe grammatical elements of a sentenceâ; âa key factor in her successâ; âhumor: an effective ingredient of a speechâ;
Factornoun
any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
Factornoun
one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer;
âwhat are the 4 factors of 6?â;
Factornoun
a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
Factornoun
an independent variable in statistics
Factornoun
(genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity;
âgenes were formerly called factorsâ;
Factorverb
resolve into factors;
âa quantum computer can factor the number 15â;
Factornoun
a circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result
âhis skill was a factor in ensuring that so much was achievedâ; âshe worked fast, conscious of the time factorâ;
Factornoun
a gene that determines a hereditary characteristic
âthe Rhesus factorâ;
Factornoun
a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression
âan amount that exceeds it by a factor of 1000 or moreâ;
Factornoun
a number or algebraic expression by which another is exactly divisible.
Factornoun
a level on a scale of measurement.
Factornoun
(with numeral) a sunscreen of the sun protection factor specified
âfactor 30 sun creamâ;
Factornoun
any of a number of substances in the blood, mostly identified by numerals, which are involved in coagulation.
Factornoun
an agent who buys and sells goods on commission
âhis father was chief factor for the Hudson's Bay Companyâ;
Factornoun
a company that buys a manufacturer's invoices at a discount and takes responsibility for collecting the payments due on them.
Factornoun
a land agent or steward
âthe house became home to the estate factorâ;
Factornoun
an agent, deputy, or representative.
Factorverb
another term for factorize
âlast year researchers factored a number 155 digits longâ;
Factorverb
(of a company) sell (its invoices) to a factor
âthey collected rents while he factored these forfeited estatesâ;
