Principal (academia)
The principal is the chief executive and the Provost (education), chief academic officer of a university or college in certain parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth.
In the United States, the principal is the head of school at most ...
, the chief executive of a university
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Principal (education)
A headmaster/headmistress, head teacher, head, school administrator, 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.
Role
While s ...
, the head of a school
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Principal (civil service)
In the United Kingdom, the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or Secretariat (administrative office), secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government, which is led ...
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 either gender. The position is similar to that of ''Soloist (ballet), solois ...
, the top rank in ballet
* Principal (music), the top rank in an orchestra
Law
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Principal (commercial law)
In commercial law, a principal is a person, legal or natural, who authorizes an agent to act to create one or more legal relationships with a third party. This branch of law is called agency and relies on the common law proposition (from ...
, the person who authorizes an agent
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Principal (architecture)
In the United States, an architectural firm or architecture firm is a business that employs one or more licensure, licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture; while in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and ot ...
, licensed professional(s) with ownership of the firm
* Principal (criminal law), the primary actor in a criminal offense
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Principal (Catholic Church)
Principal (, ; ''Principais''), or more formally, Principal of the Holy Patriarchal Church of Lisbon (), was the honorific title granted to the canons of the chapter of the Patriarchal See of Lisbon by the papal bull '' Salvatoris nostri Mater' ...
Principal, Ecuador
Principal is a town and rural parish in Chordeleg Canton, Azuay Province, Ecuador. It is located 18 km south of Chordeleg, and 65 km from the city of Cuenca. It was founded as a parish by an Decree, Executive Decree on June 12, 1953, under the pr ...
The Principal
''The Principal'' is a 1987 action comedy 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 near ...
'', a 1987 action film
* Principal (music), 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 the ...
, the first phase of movie production
* "The Principal", a song on the album ''
K-12
K-1 is a professional kickboxing promotion established in 1993 by karateka Kazuyoshi Ishii.
Originally under the ownership of the Fighting and Entertainment Group (FEG), K-1 was considered to be the largest Kickboxing organization in the world. ...
'' by Melanie Martinez
Finance
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Principal (finance)
Debt is an obligation that requires one party, the debtor, to pay money borrowed or otherwise withheld from another party, the creditor. Debt may be owed by a sovereign state or country, local government, company, or an individual. Commerc ...
or principal sum, the original amount of a debt or investment on which interest is calculated
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Principal (bond)
In finance, a bond is a type of security under which the issuer (debtor) owes the holder (creditor) a debt, and is obliged – depending on the terms – to provide cash flow to the creditor (e.g. repay the principal (i.e. amount borrowed) of ...
, the face value of a bond
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Principal Financial Group
Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG) is an American global financial investment management and insurance company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
History
PFG was first founded under the name Bankers Life Insurance Company. Ba ...
, a life insurance company
Other uses
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Principal (computer security)
A principal in computer security is an entity that can be authenticated by a computer system or network. It is referred to as a security principal in Java and Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and tec ...
, 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
An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as ''wind'') to a set of organ pipes. Its name comes from the fact that stops can be used selectively by the organist; each can be "on" (admitting the passage of a ...
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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