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principals
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principals is a polysyllabic word with 3 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, principals is hyphenated as:
Definitions ofprincipals
1noun
- The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
Example: "A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest."
- The chief administrator of a school.
- The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
Example: "My principal sells metal shims."
- The primary participant in a crime.
- A partner or owner of a business.
- A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
- 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.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
- An essential point or rule; a principle.
- A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
- A security principal.
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