factor

Definition

A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.

Etymology

From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).

Example Sentences

• "The factor of the trading post bought the furs."
• "My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine."
• "And let such as will number the Kings of Castile and Portugall amongst the warlike and magnanimous conquerors, seeke for some other adherent then my selfe, forsomuch as twelve hundred leagues from their idle residence they have made themselves masters of both Indias, onely by the conduct and direction of their factors, of whom it would be knowne whether they durst but goe and enjoy them in person."

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