Synonyms and Antonyms of factor
1
a person who acts or does business for another
- at the auction the high bidder for the painting was actually a factor for a wealthy art collector
agent, assignee, attorney, commissary, delegate, deputy, envoy, minister, procurator, proxy, rep, representative
ambassador, diplomat, diplomatist, emissary, foreign minister, legate, plenipotentiary
alternate, backup, pinch hitter, relief, replacement, stand-in, sub, substitute, surrogate, understudy
informer, operative, spy
broker, distributor, manager
arbiter, arbitrator, comprador (or compradore), conciliator, go-between, intercessor, intermediary, interposer, liaison, mediator, middleman, peacemaker
mouthpiece, point man, point person, prophet, speaker, spokesman, spokesperson
2
one of the parts that make up a whole
- price was only one factor in my decision to buy the car
basis, part and parcel
detail, item, particular, point
aspect, characteristic, facet, feature, trait
division, fragment, particle, partition, piece, portion, section, sector, segment
subcomponent
aggregate, composite, compound, mass
entirety, sum, summation, total, totality
admixture, amalgam, amalgamation, blend, combination, intermixture, mix, mixture
