to include a particular amount or factor when you calculate something
Green issues are a big factor in the parliamentary elections... ``They've just pulled out?
In the doctor's opinion, this relationship was a significant contributory factor in Moira's commitment to staying off heroin.
Total spending was virtually the same in real terms after factoring in inflation.
We weren't supposed to know about the radar or the sonar buoys, so that was already a factor in our favour.
factors in
factoring in
factored in
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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