principal means

collocation in English

meanings of principaland mean

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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/ us /ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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mean
noun[S]
uk /miːn/ us /miːn/
mathematicsspecialized
the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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Examples of principal means

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The perception of sons and husbands as the principal means of security emphasises the continuing traditional patriarchal form of society in developing countries.
There are two principal means of voice identification, the ear or a machine.
Changes in teaching style - for example the introduction of lectures as a principal means of teaching - also clearly affect students' transition to higher education.
These six categories were the principal means through which the inexperienced listeners appreciated the types of work represented in this study.
Language, or rather its form as text, has become the principal means of expressing and articulating power.
Dietary modification and pharmacological therapy are the principal means employed to control maternal hyperglycemia.
Viewed from these perspectives, it may be seen as a principal means through which one comes to know music.
These tests provided the principal means at that time for screening wheat lines under selection in a preliminary assessment of bread-making quality.
It was also common in radio drama, and then in turn became a principal means of providing music for television.
In democracies, elections are the principal means by which citizens may hold government officials accountable for their performance.
Despite these widely acknowledged shortcomings, it continues to provide the principal means by which scholars distinguish systems of social provision.
This puts greater emphasis on the circulation of music commodities as the principal means of maintaining the scene (see above).
However, for retrieval using short captions, the evaluation data is rather limited, and we therefore constructed our own test set as the principal means of evaluation.
Mobutu was able to retain his grip through two principal means : his control of money and his control of force.
These camps, which are frequently patrilineal, are the principal means through which high-level business and political contacts and friendships are formed.
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