factoring

[ fak-ter-ing ]

noun

1. Commerce. the business of purchasing and collecting accounts receivable or of advancing cash on the basis of accounts receivable.
2. the act or process of separating an equation, formula, cryptogram, etc., into its component parts.

factoring

/ ˈfæktərɪŋ /

noun

1. the business of a factor
2. the business of purchasing debts from clients at a discount and making a profit from their collection

Word History and Origins

Origin of factoring¹

factor + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Factoring is a hard problem because all current methods seek the answer via “brute force,” checking the astronomical number of possibilities one by one by one.

From MIT Technology Review

Those miserable results and the factoring in of known unknowns might explain advertisers’ resistance to buying into the Big Buy.

From Ozy

Back when Roman Polanski won for The Pianist, did you feel the same way about not factoring in sexual matters?

From The Daily Beast

Like it or not, though, race is sure to keep factoring into the discussion.

From The Daily Beast

Synagogues were counted by factoring both the number in that same ASARB report and also the number listed on Citysearch.com.

From The Daily Beast

Factoring in time for edits, that gave him only three months.

From The Daily Beast

Ties were broken by The Daily Beast factoring in the overall size of the industry.

From The Daily Beast