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词汇 principal
释义 principal
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/ us /ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
B1
first in order of importance: 最重要的
Iraq's principal export is oil.伊拉克最重要的出口商品是石油。
He was principal dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem.他是哈莱姆舞剧院的头牌舞蹈演员。
That was my principal reason for moving.那是我搬家最主要的原因。
Synonyms
chief
main
primary
The principal aim of this meeting is to reach a decision that we all agree on.
The diaphragm is the principal muscle of respiration.膈膜是主要的呼吸肌。
I would like to earn more, but this isn't my principal reason for leaving the job.
He can't give up teaching, it's his principal source of income.
This is the principal road between the two cities.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Very important or urgent
all-important
at all costsidiom
be a matter of life and/or deathidiom
cardinally
chief
last
last but not leastidiom
leading
life-altering
life-and-death
overriding
primacy
primary
prime
principally
prior
seminal
tectonic
weightily
weighty

Grammar



Principal or principle?
Principal as an adjective means ‘most important’: …
principal
noun
uk /ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/ us /ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/

principalnoun (PERSON)


A2[ C ]US(UKheadteacher, head)
the person in charge of a school (中小学或学院的)校长
A2[ C ]UK
the person in charge of a college or university(大学或学院的)校长
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Teachers
academician
ALNCo
associate professor
board of education
co-principal
homeschooler
housemaster
housemistress
instructor
lecturer
rector
residence
schoolie
schoolmarm
schoolmaster
teacherly
teaching assistant
trainer
tutor
visiting

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University & college education

principalnoun (MONEY)


[ Cusually singular ] finance & economics specialized
an amount of money that someone has invested in a bank or lent to a person or organization so that they will receive interest on it from the bank, person, or organization: 本金;可生息的资本
She lives off the interest and tries to keep the principal intact.她靠利息过日子,尽量不动用本金。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Interest & capital
annualized
APR
bank rate
base rate
capital intensive
coffer
compound
concessional
finance
interest rate
interest-bearing
lending rate
money
non-derivative
Premium Bond
simple interest
sinking fund
stock
the purse stringsidiom
working capital

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Stock markets

principal | American Dictionary


principal
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈprɪn·sə·pəl/

principaladjective[not gradable] (MAIN)


first in order of importance:
Iraq’s principal export is oil.
principal
noun
us/ˈprɪn·sə·pəl/

principalnoun (PERSON)


[ C ]
a person in charge of a school

principalnoun (MONEY)


[ Cusually sing ]
an amount of money that is lent, borrowed, or invested, apart from any additional money such as interest

principal | Business English


principal
adjective
uk /ˈprɪnsəpəl/us
first in order of importance:
Iraq's principal export is oil.
Nigeria remains the country's principal economic partner.
FINANCE, ECONOMICS
relating to an amount of money lent or borrowed, rather than to the interest paid on it:
Shares of these funds involve investment risk, including the possible loss of the principal amount invested.
principal
noun
uk /ˈprɪnsəpəl/us
[ Cusually singular ] FINANCE
an amount of money lent or borrowed, rather than the interest paid on it:
She lives off the interest and tries to keep the principal intact.
These bonds involve the risk that the issuing company may be unable to pay interest or repay principal.
The money is secured by the borrower's home, which is sold after the borrower's death to pay off the interest and principal.
[ C ] LAW
a person who is directly involved in an arrangement, agreement, etc., rather than someone acting for that person:
Once the principals sign the necessary papers the deal will be done.
[ C ] LAW
a person who has legal responsibility for what a business or organization does:
I later became a principal at an investment banking firm.

Examples of principal


principal
Some of the principal roles of taxonomies are to facilitate human understanding, impart structure on an ontology and promote tenable integration.
We used principal-factor analysis (starting with squared multiple correlations as the prior communality estimates) to extract the principal factors from the 17 premenstrual symptoms.
The principal result of this paper is the following.
These and the reduction of crop yields caused by the trees were considered as the principal costs.
Four principal investigations of inter-war development were undertaken.
The numbers atop the bars denote the cumulative percentages of the response variation accounted for by successive principal components.
Presence of females among the principal group in a multiple inhumation causes us to believe that women had a preponderant role within the society.
This formal acknowledgement of informal carers as principal providers of support was seen as a recognition that was somewhat overdue.
The following sections of the paper seek to specify the principal dimensions of reserve among older people and the groups that are most vulnerable.
We overcame two principal difficulties in this study.
Secondly, the principal site for storage of stachyose in seeds seems to be the cytoplasm.
Firstly, no control agency can allow itself to jeopardize the relationship of trust it enjoys with its political principals.
That the principal object of a site for arable farming or animal husbandry enjoys much attention is simply stating the obvious.
In spite of its historical framework the work is dominated by the fates of its three principal characters.
These are small clusters of buildings that have developed around a short access drive to form enclosures behind the line of the principal street frontage.
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