PRINCIPAL DEFINITION FINANCE PROFESSIONAL
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.OBS An essential point or rule a principle.One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.(architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.(Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.A company represented by a salesperson.(law) The primary participant in a crime.
When an attorney represents a client, the client is the principal who permits the attorney, the client′s agent, to act on the client′s behalf.(law) One who directs another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf.(Britain, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.(Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest.(finance) NU The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.Definition of principal in English Dictionary