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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151. For the genealogist, however, the principal value of the returns lies in the help they provide in tracing elusive ancestors.
152. Table 5.2 shows the relationship of the principal carer to the dementia sufferer.
153. The project seeks to chart the speed of reaction by entrants to profitable opportunities, and documents the principal barriers to entry.
154. The principal victims or beneficiaries of this change of direction are the historic tied houses.
155. Most small towns of any significance lay on the principal roads; some also enjoyed the advantages provided by a nearby river.
156. The principal adviser said that the advisers could only comment on what they had seen - or not seen.
157. For others, governments are to provide the main resources for and be the principal actors in public communication.
158. Since the death of his predecessor, Professor Blakely, he was one of its principal architects.
159. His arms and legs were eaten by the principal chiefs of the nation, and the rest distributed among the people.
160. At the same time we spoke to the director and the principal adviser.
161. The principal findings of the Implications Team, concurred in by the 350 members of the plenary, were twofold.
162. Nor is it much concerned with exceptions to the rule that, to every effect, there is one principal cause.
163. The principal problem area concerns the additional amount of computation that may be necessary successfully to implement Monte Carlo based techniques.
164. The reports come amid fighting at the country's principal military airbase at Bagram, 40 miles from the capital.
165. But remember those old newspaper clippings mentioning that he'd been hanged by the Home Office's principal Official Executioner?
166. The prosecution dropped the charges in 1976, announcing that the principal witness was too ill to ever testify.
167. Child benefit, the principal family benefit, has not been increased in line with pensions and other benefits.
168. To render capitalism more humane and efficient was the principal aim of the professional expert.
169. The first principal component has most information and hence the greatest contrast and least noise.
170. Of three of the principal women, Midge and Alexia so clearly belong to different classes, and Cressy to none.
171. A principal aim is, of course, to present the pupils successfully for external exams.
172. The principal directed her to stop discussing school politics, to teach economics, and to use more conventional teaching methods.
173. The annual population estimates constitute the principal source of official statistics on sub-national populations.
174. As a principal, he assumes responsibility for the performance of the entire transportation contract.
175. Candidates for either the Woolley or the Horsman Fellowship should write to the Principal enclosing a s.a.e.for an application form.
176. It is a simplification to banish all but the principal actors from the international stage.
177. The principal goal of Republican conservatives is to reverse the Roe v Wade ruling.
178. Assistant principals aid the principal in the overall administration of the school.
179. Union leaders accused the principal of scaremongering in an attempt to wreck today's strike.
180. It was further suggested that the principal value of the new statement might be for reference purposes rather than for wide circulation.
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