factoring

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the process by which a number or variable is written as a product of two or more terms (= numbers or symbols)

Factoring completely is the process of factoring a number until no other factors can be found.

a situation in which a company buys the right to collect payments and debts owed to another company and charges for doing this:

You can decrease the burden of unpaid debts by selling those debts to a factoring service.