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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121. Nevertheless, many Third World countries still rely heavily on selling raw material commodities as their principal source of income.
122. The principal clinical signs in heavy infections are rapid weight loss and diarrhoea.
123. The councillor should become acquainted with the principal officers from whom he can gain a considerable amount of information and help.
124. The main beneficiary of it was the agricultural worker and the principal loser the landowner.
125. Thus Stiglitz sees the control problem as a multiple-principal-single- agent problem with each principal having a somewhat different objective.
126. The principal aim of this exploratory research is to gain a better understanding of franchising and the franchising decision.
127. He was the principal other actor in all my fantasies.
128. Now, as he regarded the principal, stripped of his power, my father could not restrain himself any longer.
129. The first principal component, carrying 50 percent of the original variance, was dominated by land-cover differences in the rural area.
130. Thus we can calculate the money value of the final coupon payment and principal repayment on 30 March 1988 as follows.
131. Not an obviously charismatic figure, Mr Chan's principal qualities are those of a high-order bureaucrat.
132. Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them.
133. Any student caught breaking the school rules was immediately sent to the Principal.
134. The principal advantage of this drug is that it causes little sedation or impairment of cognitive function and no dysmorphic side effects.
135. The officers should be led by a chief executive assisted by a principal chief officers management team consisting of about six members.
136. Reporters try to establish what the unfolding events mean to the principal actors concerned.
137. Their hope was that the statement could be used as the principal criterion for selecting an appropriate organization structure.
138. We re-interviewed those principal carers whose relatives, etc had moved to permanent institutional care by the end of one year.
139. Peter Mann, principal educational adviser to Dorset County Council, is clearly one of the optimists.
140. There was evidentially speaking a head-on collision between the appellant and the principal prosecution witness.
141. Two days later the former Enniskillen high school principal slipped into a coma from which he never awakened.
142. The principal legislation governing the conduct of insurance business is the Insurance Companies Act 1982.
143. At this meeting the director, the principal adviser, the head and forty-three of the staff were present.
144. The principal said he offered me the Position sight unseen based on my letter of application and my resume.
145. His character sketches of the principal players are sharp, perceptive and often very funny.
146. In Carrington's personal bestiary the horse was the principal icon.
147. These can be drawn out from within the history of a caring relationship particularly where there is a principal carer taking responsibility.
148. He was the principal architect of the paper's style and the only journalist involved with the original Founders.
149. The principal datum input to any search algorithm is a description of its search space.
150. The principal guest bedroom features fleur de lys wallpaper specially designed to be in keeping with the period the castle was built.
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