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| Main Entry: |
factor
 [fak-ter] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determinant |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, aid, antecedent, aspect, board, cause, circumstance, component, consideration, constituent, element, fixin's, influence, ingredient, instrument, instrumentality, item, makin's, means, part, part and parcel, point, portion, thing |
| Main Entry: | agent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, instrument for achievement |
| Synonyms: | cause, channel, factor, force, means, medium, organ, power, vehicle |
| Main Entry: | broker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial expert |
| Synonyms: | agent, business person, dealer, entrepreneur, factor, financier, go-between, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, mediator, merchant, middleperson, negotiator, stockbroker |
Example Sentences
- Three other factors have combined to push it down recently.
- Four main factors affect the pace and completeness of decay.
- Most aerial disasters happen because of an lengthy list of multiple complex factors.
| Main Entry: | circumstance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation, condition |
| Synonyms: | Moira, accident, action, adjunct, affair, article, case, cause, coincidence, concern, contingency, crisis, destiny, detail, doom, element, episode, event, exigency, fact, factor, fate, feature, fortuity, go, happening, happenstance, incident, intervention, item, juncture, kismet, lot, matter, occasion, occurrence, particular, phase, place, point, portion, proviso, respect, scene, status, stipulation, supervention, thing, time, where it's at |
| Main Entry: | complication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficult situation |
| Synonyms: | aggravation, complexity, confusion, development, difficulty, dilemma, drawback, embarrassment, entanglement, factor, intricacy, obstacle, problem, snag, web |
| Antonyms: | ease, peace, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | component |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part, element |
| Synonyms: | constituent, factor, fixings, ingredient, item, making, makings, peripheral, piece, plug-in, segment, unit |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | consideration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concern; something mentally examined |
| Synonyms: | development, difficulty, emergency, estate, evidence, exigency, extent, factor, fancy, idea, incident, issue, items, judgment, magnitude, minutiae, notion, occasion, occurrence, particulars, perplexity, plan, point, problem, proposal, puzzle, scope, situation, state, thought, trouble |
| Antonyms: | omission |
| Main Entry: | constituent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | element |
| Synonyms: | board, component, division, essential, factor, fixins, fraction, ingredient, makings, part, part and parcel, plug-in, portion, principle, unit |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | delegate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | representative, often governmental |
| Synonyms: | agent, alternate, ambassador, appointee, catchpole, commissioner, consul, deputy, emissary, envoy, factor, front*, legate, member, member of congress, minister, mouthpiece, nominee, people's choice, pinch hitter, plenipotentiary, proxy, regent, rep, replacement, senator, spokesperson, stand-in, substitute, surrogate, vicar, viceroy |
| Notes: | as a noun, delegate is a person appointed or elected to represent others - as a verb delegate means to transfer power or authority to someone; relegate means to refer to another person for decision or judgment or assign to a lower position or reduce in rank a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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