Word Meanings - FACTORSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The business of a factor.

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• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• FACTORIZE
  To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• FACTORESS
  A factor who is a woman.
• FACTORAGE
  The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.
• FACTORSHIP
  The business of a factor.
• FACTOR
  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.
• FACTORING
  The act of resolving into factors.
• FACTORIAL
  Related to factorials. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a factory. Buchanan.
• FACTORY
  1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke. 2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• CALEFACTOR
  A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
• MALEFACTOR
  1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.
• SATISFACTORY
  1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
• OLFACTORY
  Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ , an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part
• DISSATISFACTORY
  Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing. To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult
• BENEFACTOR
  One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.
• MANUFACTORY
  1. Manufacture. 2. A building or place where anything is manufactured; a factory.
• CALEFACTORY
  Making hot; producing or communicating heat.
• EXCALFACTORY
  Heating; warming. Holland.