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principal
[ prin-suh-puhl ]
adjective
- first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost:
The principal problem is a lack of money.
She's the principal advisor on the council.
Synonyms: , , , , ,
Antonyms: ,
- of, of the nature of, or constituting principal or capital:
Though our portfolio has seen losses, the principal investment remains untouched.
- Geometry. (of an axis of a conic) passing through the foci.
noun
- a chief or head.
Synonyms:
- the head or director of a school or, especially in England, a college.
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- a person who takes a leading part in any activity, as a play; chief actor or doer.
- the first player of a division of instruments in an orchestra (excepting the leader of the first violins).
- something of principal or chief importance.
- Law.
- a person who authorizes someone else, such as an agent, to represent them.
- a person directly responsible for a crime, either as an actual perpetrator or as an abettor present at its commission. Compare accessory ( def 3 ).
- a person primarily liable for an obligation, in contrast with an endorser, or the like.
- the main body of an estate, or the like, as distinguished from income.
- Finance. a capital sum, as distinguished from interest or profit.
- Music.
- an organ stop.
- the subject of a fugue.
- (in a framed structure) a member, as a truss, upon which adjacent or similar members depend for support or reinforcement.
- each of the combatants in a duel, as distinguished from the seconds.
principal
/ ˈ±è°ùɪ²Ô²õɪ±èÉ™±ô /
adjective
- first in importance, rank, value, etc; chief
- denoting or relating to capital or property as opposed to interest, etc
noun
- a person who is first in importance or directs some event, action, organization, etc
- (in Britain) a civil servant of an executive grade who is in charge of a section
- law
- a person who engages another to act as his agent
- an active participant in a crime
- the person primarily liable to fulfil an obligation
- the head of a school or other educational institution
- (in Scottish schools) a head of department
- finance
- capital or property, as contrasted with the income derived from it
- the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
- a main roof truss or rafter
- music
- the chief instrumentalist in a section of the orchestra
- one of the singers in an opera company
- either of two types of open diapason organ stops, one of four-foot length and pitch and the other of eight-foot length and pitch
- the leading performer in a play
principal
- The original amount of money lent, not including profits and interest .
Usage
Confusables Note
Derived Forms
- ˈ±è°ù¾±²Ô³¦¾±±è²¹±ô²õ³ó¾±±è, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of principal1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of principal1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
If that’s the case, the money should be moved to investments that preserve principal so the cash will be there when you need it.
However, interim principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Shane O'Neill, told the Scottish government's education, children and young people committee that number referred to full-time equivalent posts, and the actual number of people affected would be higher.
"Mr Caller is supposed to be acting in an advisory capacity. However, he has been acting as the principal decision maker."
His appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, the principal administrative agency handling labor-management conflict, interpreted the 90-year old National Labor Relations Act so as to enhance the rights of workers to organize.
You can defer tax on this gain if you use the insurance payout to rebuild or buy a replacement property, says Mark Luscombe, a principal analyst with Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting.
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