a factory where weapons are produced

The sleazy or sordid aspect of a political situation. / The corrupt or tainted element of a political party or administration.

(uncountable) The quality or state of being a fact.

(economics) The phenomenon whereby many small purchases add up to a significant expenditure over time.

A factor that encourages one to leave one's current home, region, country, organization, or religion.

Alternative form of factorize

(mathematics, transitive) To create a list of the factors of. / (mathematics, transitive) To divide an expression into a list of items that, when multiplied together, will produce the original quantity.

(law) A business entity that is treated as a corporation for certain purposes despite its failure to meet all of the formal requirements imposed by law for a corporation to exist.

A measure of the quality of an electric circuit; the ratio of the reactance to the resistance.

plural of de facto corporation