principal

1. (uncountable)The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

   A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest.

   2012, Denis Clifford, Plan Your Estate, 11th Edition, NOLO, US, page 298, For instance, in some states, dividends that have automatically been reinvested will be treated as principal.

   Anlagebetrag, Anlagesumme, Einsatz

   основно́й долгosnovnój dolg, основна́я су́ммаosnovnája súmma

   капіта́лkapitál

   the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated

2. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Philippines, US, countable, uncountable)The chief administrator of a school.

   Rektor, Rektorin, Schulvorsteher

   дире́кторdiréktor, директри́саdirektrísa, ре́кторréktor

   дире́кторdyréktor, дире́кторкаdyréktorka

3. (Canada, UK, countable, uncountable)The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.

   Coordinate term: bursar

   ре́кторréktor, ре́кторкаréktorka

4. (countable, uncountable)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.

   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.

   My principal sells metal shims.

   Geschäftsherr, Prinzipal, Vollmachtgeber

   довери́тельdoverítelʹ, принципа́лprincipál

   довіри́тельdovirýtelʹ

5. (countable, uncountable)The primary participant in a crime.

   Haupttäter m or simply Täter

6. (countable, uncountable)Either party in a duel.

7. (Canada, US, countable, uncountable)A partner or owner of a business.

8. (countable, uncountable)A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.

9. (countable, uncountable)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.

10. (countable, uncountable)The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

11. (countable, uncountable)One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned

12. (countable, uncountable)A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

1. The principal came in after the teacher.

   Директор зайшов після вчителя.

   ruДиректор вошёл вслед за учителем.

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2. The principal wants to talk to you.

   Директор хоче з тобою поговорити.

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3. Tom is the principal of a high school.

   Том — директор школи.

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4. I met the principal himself.

   Я зустрівся із самим директором школи.

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5. I bet he is our principal.

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