principal

  • 51principal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. chief, leader, head; constituent, client; buyer, seller; capital, corpus. See money. adj. foremost, chief, prime, greatest, main, leading. See importance. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. leading, chief,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 52principal — 1 adjective (only before noun) most important; main: My principal source of income is teaching. | The principal character in the book is called Scarlett. see also: principally 2 noun 1 (singular) technical an amount of money lent to someone, put… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 53principál — a m (ȃ) v kapitalistični ekonomiki lastnik podjetja; podjetnik: principal tiskarne; principal in njegovi uslužbenci ◊ muz. osnovni orgelski register z ostrim tonom …

    Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika

  • 54principal — Adjective: Of first importance. In the first rank. Noun: The head of a high school or grade school. The amount of an original indebtedness as distinguished from interest accruing. The corpus of an estate in property. In an agency relationship,… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 55principal — See principal, principle …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 56principal — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ college (BrE), school (esp. AmE) ▪ elementary school, high school, middle school (all AmE) ▪ independent school, private school …

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  • 57principal n — It wasn t school John disliked, it was just the principal of it …

    English expressions

  • 58principal — adjective 1》 first in order of importance; main. 2》 denoting an original sum of money invested or lent. noun 1》 the most important or senior person in an organization or group.     ↘the head of a school or college.     ↘(in certain professions) a …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 59principal — 1. noun An individual who, in *agency theory, delegates responsibilities to an *agent. A principal can be remote from the actions of an agent in both physical terms (i.e., geographical distance) and intellectual terms (i.e., an inability to… …

    Auditor's dictionary

  • 60principal — adj 1. chief, prime, paramount; most important, first, highest, leading; main, major, cardinal, supreme; superlative, best, crowning, acmic, ac matic, summital; greatest, maximal, nonpareil, unparalleled, matchless, peerless; utmost, uppermost,… …

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