[
  {
    "word": "factor",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8f\u00e6kt\u0259/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8f\u00e6kt\u0259/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8f\u00e6kt\u025a/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/factor-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1762673",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The factor of the trading post bought the furs."
          },
          {
            "definition": "An agent or representative.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A commission agent.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A steward or bailiff of an estate.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(of a number or other mathematical object) To be a product of other objects.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(commercial) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/factor"
    ]
  }
]