The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word FACTOR
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result FACTOR
- At the outset, football player finds agent
- Business agent following player
- Fine player that contributes to final result
- Agent‘s player after flying start
- Agent, pro concealing pretence
- Influence female luvvie?
- Agent works after taking year off
- Element in favour of keeping law
- Element in composition beneficial to capturing exploit
- Female thespian could be an influence
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What does FACTOR mean?
FACTOR noun- A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
- An agent or representative.
- A commission agent.
- A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
- A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
- One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
- Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
- (causal analysis) 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.
- A steward or bailiff of an estate.
- To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
- (of a number or other mathematical object) To be a product of other objects.
- (commercial) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.