Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The business of a factor.
- noun The commission or fee paid to a factor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The aggregate of all constituent factors.
- noun The allowance given to a factor by his employer as compensation for his services. Also called
commission . - noun The business of or dealings with factors; consignment to or sale by a factor or factors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a
commission .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
commission paid to afactor - noun The business of a factor.
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Examples
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Troral's factorage was a modest structure, no more than fifteen yards across the front, and less than that in depth, although Mykel could see a stable down the side lane past a battered loading dock.
Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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Late on Tridi afternoon, under a sky that had gotten progressively more hazy over the course of the day, Mykel rode into Hyalt, south past the square and then to Troral's factorage, where he reined up, dismounted, and tied the roan to one of the posts in front of the narrow porch.
Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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Amaryk is the seltyr's factoring representative in Tempre for the family's new factorage there ....
Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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Was the weaver doing so well that he could sell in his own shop, and place cloth in Derdan's small factorage as well?
Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005
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The bales he spoke of lay on the deck; and showing them to me, he says, There are the goods; I hope you will take care to sell them, and you shall have factorage.
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The bales he spoke of lay on the deck, and showing them to me, he said: 'There are the goods; I hope you will take care to sell them, and you shall have factorage.'
The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales Unknown 1889
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In November, 1869, he established a commission and cotton factorage business under the name and style of Pinchback & Antoine.
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The mercantile profit on fifty millions of merchandise, added to the agency and factorage of the Southern products transmitted to pay for them, will be at least twenty per cent.
Diary in America, Series One Frederick Marryat 1820
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The bales he spoke of lay on the deck, and shewing them to me, he said, "There are the goods; I hope you will take care to sell them, and you shall have factorage."
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791
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The same sovereign, however, who increased the tolls of the Sound, counterpoised the bad effects of this measure, by the encouragement he gave to manufactures and commerce; in this he was seconded by the Danish gentry, who began to carry on merchandize and factorage themselves, and also established manufactories.
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