PRINCIPAL

:''Not to be confused with principle.''
'Principal' may refer to:

Contents

Education

Law

Other uses

Education

The head of an educational institution:

★ Principal (school), head of a primary or secondary school

★ Principal (university), chief executive of a university

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★ Dean (education), a person with significant authority

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★ Provost (education), chief academic officer of a university

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★ Chancellor (education), the head of a university

Law

★ Principal (commercial law), a person who authorises an agent to act to create a legal relationship with a third party

★ Principal (criminal law), one (or more) primary actor(s) in a criminal offense for which other actors may be criminally liable as accomplices, accessories or conspirators.

Other uses

★ Principal, in finance, the original amount of a debt or investment on which interest is calculated

★ Principal, in business, a person with an ownership (equity) position in the business,

★ Organ stop on a pipe organ

★ A musician in an orchestra who either plays the first part (wind instruments), or who sits in the first chair and leads a section (of string instruments) in playing the same part.

★ A performer in an opera or musical who takes a more or less prominent part in the action, and sings solo or in small ensembles. Contrasts with chorus.

★ A principal ideal in ring theory in mathematics is an ideal with a single generator

★ Principal or Principal Officer is a senior management grade (now grade 7) in the British Civil Service and the Irish Civil Service.

★ A security principal is an entity that can be positively identified and verified via a technique known as Authentication.

★ Principal, Cape Verde is a village.

★ Principal Financial Group is a life insurance company traded on the NYSE.