principal

• most important element
• capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
• the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange
• the educator who has executive authority for a school
• an actor who plays a principal role
• the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
• (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
• Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree
• A leader, chief, or head
• The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory
• A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety
• One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent
• A thing of chief or prime importance
• A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund
• The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing
• In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason
• A heirloom
• The first two long feathers of a hawk´s wing
• One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
• A principal or essential point or rule
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Ecuador in Azuay

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