Principal (education)
A head master, head instructor, bureaucrat, headmistress, head, chancellor, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the staff member of a school with the greatest responsibility for the management of the school. In som ...
, the office holder/ or boss in any school
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Principal (civil service)
His Majesty's Home Civil Service, also known as His Majesty's Civil Service, the Home Civil Service, or colloquially as the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, which ...
or principal officer, the senior management level in the UK Civil Service
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Principal dancer
A principal dancer (often shortened to principal) is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
A principal may be male or female. The position is similar to that of '' soloist''; however, p ...
, the top rank in ballet
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Principal (music)
The section principal in an orchestra, as well as any large musical ensemble, is the lead player for each respective section of instruments. For example, there are multiple sections in an orchestra. The strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion se ...
Principal (criminal law)
Under criminal law, a principal is any actor who is primarily responsible for a criminal offense.See, e.g., Superior Growers, 982 F.2d at 177-78; United States v. Campa, 679 F.2d 1006, 1013 (lst Cir. 1982). Such an actor is distinguished from othe ...
, the primary actor in a criminal offense
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Principal (Catholic Church)
Principal ( pt, Principal, ; ''Principais''), or more formally, Principal of the Holy Patriarchal Church of Lisbon ( pt, Principal da Santa Igreja Patriarcal de Lisboa), was the honorific title granted to the canon (priest), canons of the chapter ...
, an honorific used in the See of Lisbon
Places
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Principal, Cape Verde
Principal is a settlement in the northern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. It is part of the municipality of São Miguel. The settlement consists of several localities along the river Ribeira Principal, including Chão de Horta, Horte ...
, a village
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Principal, Ecuador
Principal, Ecuador is a small village located at the furthest reaches of the Chordeleg Canton, part of the Azuay Province, that is governed by a local authority named "Gobierno Autónimo Descentralizado" or GAD, that oversees public affairs, th ...
The Principal
''The Principal'' is a 1987 crime thriller action film starring Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr. and Rae Dawn Chong. Written by Frank Deese and directed by Christopher Cain, it was filmed in Oakland, California, and at Northgate High School in ...
'', a 1987 action film
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Principal (music)
The section principal in an orchestra, as well as any large musical ensemble, is the lead player for each respective section of instruments. For example, there are multiple sections in an orchestra. The strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion se ...
, the lead musician in a section of an orchestra
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Principal photography
Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production.
Personnel
Besides the main film personnel, such as a ...
, the first phase of movie production
* "The Principal", a song on the album '' K-12'' by Melanie Martinez
* Principal (computer security), an entity that can be identified and verified
* Principal or diapason, one of the flue pipes on a pipe organ
** Principal or diapason, a corresponding organ stop on a pipe organ
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Victoria Principal
Vicki Ree Principal (born January 3, 1950),Principle (disambiguation), easily confused word
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