noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A financial transaction whereby a business sells its accounts receivable to a third party (called a factor) at a discount.
2. 2
   (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression wordnet
3. 3
   The process of rewriting an expression as the product of its factor.

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of factor form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

appraisalassessmentclassificationevaluationfactorisationfactorization

Related phrases

accounts receivablethird party

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.