Talk:principal

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups: &mdash; Hippietrail 12:41, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * principal: fa.sf-lovers - 22 May 1981 by Jim McGrath
 * Hyams doesn't pay too much attention to the private lives of his principal characters.
 * principals: net.general - 29 May 1981 by utzoo
 * MISTRESS has been developed by Rhodnius Incorporated, a company whose principals include John Kornatowski and Ivor Ladd, the major authors of Univ. of Toronto's MRS database system.
 * most principal: alt.atheism - 15 Sep 1990 by Ron Wigmore
 * is not the most principle tenet of thiest's beliefs supposed to be FAITH?
 * more principal: comp.lang.clos - 26 Jun 1991 by Christian Rathke
 * I think there is a more principle problem with designing and modularizing functionality (not only) in object-oriented programming.

Principal as school head
For what it's worth, this usage is common in Canada as well. BigNate37 00:27, 30 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Someone added the Canada gloss at some point. Equinox ◑ 23:30, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Non-standard Pronunciation
Is there a reason non-standard pronunciation is included? What does non-standard mean in this case? If it is dialectal/regional, the corresponding dialect(s) should be noted. JodianWarrior (talk) 15:28, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Legal sense: criminal
We have "the primary participant in a crime". Chambers 1908 has a slightly broader definition: "the person who commits a crime, or one who aids and abets him in doing it". Equinox ◑ 23:31, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

significant participant
any one of the most significant participants in an event or a situation the principals in the real-estate transaction Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 Is it already added? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:50, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes – “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”. You need to have a sense of abstraction. Fay Freak (talk) 03:55, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Adjective 2. (finance) initially invested
2. (finance: relating to the initial amount of money that was invested or borrowed  --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:18, 2 October 2020 (UTC)