English Dictionary

principal

/ˈpɹɪnsɪpəl/

noun

(finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated. / (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.

The principal amount of the loan is $10,000.

意味（1）

(finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest.

意味（2）

(Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.

The important administrative figure to the teacher is the school principal.

意味（3）

(UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.

Unlike the students, Principal Robertson, who now resided almost alone in the College, continued to use the accustomed route on his visits to the Old Town; and it “became the joke of the day that from being the principal gate it had become only a gate for the Principal.”⁵

意味（4）

(law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.

When an attorney represents a client, the client is the principal who permits the attorney, the client′s agent, to act on the client′s behalf.

意味（5）

(law) The primary participant in a crime.

Coordinate term: accessory

意味（6）

(Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.

意味（7）

(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.

意味（8）

(architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.

意味（9）

The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

a birde whose principals be scarce growne out

意味（10）

One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned

意味（11）

(obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.

Set two classes of monitors to question each other; so that one may try to outquestion the other. Explain to them the principal of every subject they have to teach.

意味（12）

A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

意味（13）

(computing) A security principal.