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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Address :: Address (v.) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore..
Nose :: Nose (n.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory..
Nailery :: Nailery () A manufactory where nails are made.
Nuthook :: Nuthook (n.) A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors..
Donor :: Donor (n.) One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.
Covariant :: Covariant (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic..
Manufactory :: Manufactory (n.) Manufacture.
Factor :: Factor (n.) One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent..
Commission :: Commission (n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere..
Cold :: Cold (n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
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..
Proxenet :: Proxenet (n.) A negotiator; a factor.
Calefactive :: Calefactive (a.) See Calefactory.
Answerable :: Answerable (a.) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
Sugariness :: Sugar-house (n.) A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
Olfaction :: Olfaction (n.) The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.
Commissionnaire :: Commissionnaire (n.) An agent or factor; a commission merchant.
Scent :: Scent (v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does..
Factored :: Factored (imp. & p. p.) of Facto.
Hong :: Hong (n.) A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage..
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