Făc'tor, n.

n. [Lat. factor, Fr. facteur, Pr. factor, faitor, Sp. & Pg. factor, It. fattore.] 1. (Com.) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute: especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others on 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. Simmonds. Wharton. *My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled That owes me for a hundred tun of wine. Marlow.*

2. A steward or bailiff of an estate. [Scot.] Scott.
3. (Math.) One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, form a product.