factor

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