Factor meaning : A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization. An agent or representative. A commission agent. A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business. A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result. Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole. (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence. A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production. A steward or bailiff of an estate. To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly). (of a number or other mathematical object) To be a product of other objects. (commercial) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.