单词 | factoring |
释义 | factoringn. 1. The action or process of factoring goods, money, property, invoices, debt, etc.; the work of a factor or agent. Cf. earlier factorage n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > brokerage > [noun] brokage1377 brokerage1466 makrelty1495 broking1579 brokery1583 brogging?1593 brokering1633 brothery1638 factorage1639 factoring1676 mackelerage1682 courtage1835 brokership1846 1676 tr. H. C. Agrippa Vanity Arts & Sci. c. 353 Every species of Mechanick Industry, Painting,..Factoring, Sayling. 1692 E. Settle Triumphs London Ded. sig. A2v Chaffering or Factoring have been thought so unnecessary Preliminaries in dealing with Sir John Fleet, that [etc.]. 1732 J. Ayliffe Law Pledges Ep. Ded. p. v Roman policy..never suffer'd Brokers and such like Persons to trade for themselves..in any other Kind of Dealing, besides Factoring. 1834 Rep. Select Comm. Drunkenness 50 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 559) VIII. 315 The factoring of those ships produced him 100l. a-year in commissions. 1901 R. W. Buchanan Compl. Poet. Wks. I. 181 Law, money-lending, factoring on the land, Share-broking, banking with no cash in hand. 1926 Financial Times 5 Aug. 2/4 The search for new lines of business of a profitable character.., whether by way of manufacture by ourselves or by factoring. 1936 J. C. Baker & D. W. Malott Introd. Corporate Finance viii. iii. 334 As the technique of factoring was developed over the years, the significance of the word ‘factor’ was increased by the inclusion of advances, not merely on merchandise, but against accounts receivable as well. 1956 C. W. Phelps (title) The role of factoring in modern business finance. 2004 D. Mehta & H.-G. Fung Internat. Bank Managem. vii. 183 The factoring of exports is more highly developed in Europe than elsewhere. 2. Mathematics (originally U.S.). = factorizing n. 2. Cf. factorization n. ΚΠ 1845 J. Ray Arithm. Key (new ed.) 62 (heading) Factoring. 1848 J. Ray Algebra i. ii. 73 The principal use of factoring, is to shorten the work, and simplify the results of algebraic operations. 1908 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 30 60 The factoring of a complex system of eight units into a two-unit system and a four-unit system presents no new difficulties. 1951 W. W. Elliott & E. R. C. Miles College Math. (ed. 2) i. 4 We shall confine our discussion of factoring to polynomials whose coefficients are integers. 2011 J. Gleick Information xiii. 371 His ingenious algorithm..is known by him simply as the factoring algorithm, and by everyone else as Shor's algorithm. Compounds General attributive, as factoring business, factoring house, etc.On the difficulty of distinguishing attributive examples of the noun from examples of factoring adj., see note at that entry. ΚΠ 1807 J. Harriott Struggles through Life I. lxv. 323 The factoring business increased. 1892 Biogr. & Hist. Mem. Louisiana I. 478 George D. Hite..entered mercantile life as a clerk in a cotton factoring house. 1922 Amer. Wool & Cotton Reporter 9 Nov. 3081/2 The factoring service..will be continued at the present offices. 1933 Amer. Econ. Rev. 23 80 It aims..to transfer financing to the factoring houses and the commercial banks. 1936 Accounting Rev. 11 296/2 Illustrative applications of stabilization to..a factoring company. 1959 Business Lawyer 14 719 The factoring commission..must be regarded solely as a charge for services rendered. 1989 Dimensions Spring 53/2 A factoring service, which can provide extra finance to companies which are growing fast and have much of their cash tied up in trade debts. 1993 Toronto Constr. News Jan. 10/1 Interlat..includes five subsidiaries: a commercial bank..a factoring company [etc.] 2012 S. Goel Financial Services viii. 143 The nature of factoring business is different from banking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). factoringadj. Somewhat rare. That factors something; acting as a factor or agent. Also with modifying word.In some cases it is difficult to distinguish examples of the adjective from attributive examples of factoring n.; those here have been restricted to cases where the noun modified denotes an animate agent. Compare the note at manufacturing adj. ΚΠ 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island viii. xlvi. 118 A carrion crow he is..the devils fact'ring knave. 1840 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley xxviii, in Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 168/2 A race of..linen-weaving, Presbyterian yarn-factoring..fellows. 1905 Creamery Jrnl. Sept. 26/2 There is a considerable shortage of shorts this year, so that factoring men believe that prices will rule steady. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1676adj.1633 |
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