"factoring" meaning in English

See factoring in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: factorings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} factoring (plural factorings)
  1. A financial transaction whereby a business sells its accounts receivable to a third party (called a factor) at a discount. Translations (financial transaction): ֆակտորինգ (faktoring) (Armenian), factoring (Finnish), faktorointi (Finnish), affacturage [masculine] (French), fachtóireacht [feminine] (Irish), faktoring [masculine] (Polish), factoring [masculine] (Portuguese), факторинг (faktoring) (Russian), разложение на множители (razloženije na množiteli) (Russian), разложение на дроби (razloženije na drobi) (Russian), представление в виде произведения (predstavlenije v vide proizvedenija) (Russian), factoring [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-factoring-en-noun-urPsnqDK Categories (other): Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 50 37 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 52 35 13 Disambiguation of 'financial transaction': 91 9
  2. (mathematics) The process of rewriting an expression as the product of its factor. Translations (rewriting an expression as the product of its factors): factorización [feminine] (Asturian), factorització [feminine] (Catalan), descomposició en producte de factors [feminine] (Catalan), factorisation [feminine] (French), factorización [feminine] (Galician), fattorizzazione [feminine] (Italian), scomposizione in fattori [feminine] (Italian), fatoração [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), factorização [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), factorización [feminine] (Spanish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: crowdfactoring Related terms: factorization

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} factoring
  1. present participle and gerund of factor Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: factor
    Sense id: en-factoring-en-verb-bHFBG4I7

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.