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factorage

factorage

9.9
A fee paid to a person or company for selling goods for someone else
  • noun
  • /ˈfæktərɪdʒ/
  • Archaic
translation icon : comisión
  • The merchant deducted the factorage before sending the profits to the owner.

Examples

  • The contract specified the amount of factorage owed to the agent for each transaction.

  • Do you know the factorage rates for this service?

  • After paying the factorage, the exporter received the remaining balance from the sale.

  • The factorage for selling these products is quite high.

  • The contract specified the amount of factorage owed to the agent for each transaction.

  • After paying the factorage, the exporter received the remaining balance from the sale.

  • The merchant deducted the factorage before sending the profits to the owner.

Synonyms

commission
vsfactorage
106 3.0

Money paid to a person for selling something, often part of the sale

is paid to an agent who sells goods for another person
commish
vsfactorage
  • Informal
1 8.8

Payment given to an agent or salesperson for a sale

is a formal fee for an agent who sells goods on someone else's behalf

How Much

commission
106 3.0
factorage
  • Archaic
9.9

Surface Forms

factorage singular
factorages plural

Morphology

factorage = factor (semi-transparent) = factor + age

The word is regularly built from 'factor' plus '-age', but the commercial sense is somewhat specialized rather than fully predictable for a learner.

Etymology

Factorage comes from factor, a word for a person who 'does' work for someone else, plus the ending -age from the root fac- meaning 'to do', the same root as factory. So factorage is the fee a factor takes for selling goods for someone else.