factor vs liaison

factor

noun
  • A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business. 

  • One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result. 

  • Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence. 

  • A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production. 

  • An agent or representative. 

  • A commission agent. 

  • A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable. 

  • A steward or bailiff of an estate. 

  • Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole. 

verb
  • To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect. 

  • To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly). 

  • To be a product of other objects. 

liaison

noun
  • Any person who relays information between two groups or organizations. 

  • The pronunciation of a normally silent final consonant when the next word begins with a vowel. 

  • Communication between two parties or groups. 

  • Co-operation, working together. 

  • A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war. 

  • Fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs. 

  • A tryst, romantic meeting. 

  • An illicit sexual relationship or affair. 

verb
  • To liaise. 

How often have the words factor and liaison occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )