factor

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.

The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.

3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.

The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

the factor was so scrupulous, as to keep the whole thing from his master, the lord chamberlain