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vendingmachine commented on the word foreign factor
OK, wordnik. You randomly selected this term for me. Explain it. What is the foreign factor?
June 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word foreign factor
reverse dictionary: hong.
Still not helping to explain foreign factor. You are such a tease, wordnik.
June 16, 2020
alexz commented on the word foreign factor
Sounds like a legal term regarding multinational companies.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=pr9CAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA49&dq=%22foreign+factor%22
Columbia Law Times, page 49 circa 1891
"Accordingly, a factor in New York, acting for a person in Liverpool, England, and dealing with a New York merchant, would be a foreign factor. The point then arises whether this foreign factor has the same power by implication to pledge the ..."
June 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word foreign factor
Thanks, Alex. I was hoping for more intrigue than this. The explanation ended up sounding as boring at its newfound meaning.
What do you suppose the definition is for the wordnik factor? :)
June 17, 2020