Synonym: chief, dominant, essential, foremost, head, important, leading, main, primary, prominent. Similar words: principle, municipal, anticipate, participant, participate, participation, print, spring up. Meaning: ['prɪnsəpl] 
n. 1. the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated 2. the educator who has executive authority for a school 3. an actor who plays a principal role 4. capital as contrasted with the income derived from it 5. the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account. adj. most important element.
n. 1. the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated 2. the educator who has executive authority for a school 3. an actor who plays a principal role 4. capital as contrasted with the income derived from it 5. the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account. adj. most important element. 
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91. The game is up; the principal knows the boys have been smoking in the basement.
92. The principal issues in dispute concern the duration of the future treaty.
93. The principal listened to the boy's story with sympathy and understanding.
94. He was principal dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
95. The principal and the vice-principal of the college both attended the meeting.
96. The principal was certainly a woman to be reckoned with.
97. The principal waffled on about exam results but no one was listening.
98. The two principal political parties have combined to form a government.
99. Farm produce, including fruits and grains, was their principal export.
100. She abused her position as principal by giving jobs to her friends.
101. The principal spoke with disapproval of your words and actions.
102. Their principal concern is bound to be that of winning the next general election.
103. She lives off the interest and tries to keep the principal intact.
104. A second widely-used transform is that of principal components.
105. Principal Harris demands strict adherence to the rules.
106. That is his principal claim to fame.
107. The principal officers of the local authority are those which the authority decides to appoint.
108. The decline in information content from principal component 1 to principal component 4 does not need any verbal description.
109. Parents made a complaint to the principal about bullying in the school.
110. Consider the school principal who discovers students wearing beepers to stay in contact with their superiors in the drug trade.
111. Mr Levin, the former chief strategist of Time Inc, was a principal architect of the 1989 merger.
112. For the one principal and one guidance counselor to have constant contact with all our kids would be an impossibility.
113. Anticommunism and the constitutional order provided the principal sources of political cohesion in the new political entity.
114. A student body whose principal role would be educational, not political. 4.
115. This is consistent with glass technology at the time-the principal alkali used was also soda.
116. Delighted Bangor principal Professor Eric Sunderland said the money would be used for two projects involving quality and collaborative research initiatives.
117. The principal means whereby the two language varieties interact in conversation is through language alternation in the form of code switching.
118. He used Pareto analysis to identify the principal cause as a loose loading arm.
119. Gas is slower-burning,[Sentencedict] resulting in reduced wear on principal engine components and reduced running costs.
120. The principal aim is to raise awareness among workers and employers of hazards in the workplace.
More similar words: principle, municipal, anticipate, participant, participate, participation, print, spring up, sprinkle, palm, pale, palace, palatial, recipe, pencil, council, incident, ancient, Palestinian, recipient, financial, renunciation, conciliatory, price, prior, prime, prize, priest, financial crisis, comprise.