ALL meanings of principalship
prin·ci·pal
P p - adjective principalship first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost. 1
- adjective principalship of, of the nature of, or constituting principal or capital: a principal investment. 1
- adjective principalship Geometry. (of an axis of a conic) passing through the foci. 1
- noun principalship a chief or head. 1
- noun principalship the head or director of a school or, especially in England, a college. 1
- noun principalship a person who takes a leading part in any activity, as a play; chief actor or doer. 1
- noun principalship the first player of a division of instruments in an orchestra (excepting the leader of the first violins). 1
- noun principalship something of principal or chief importance. 1
- noun principalship Law. a person who authorizes another, as an agent, to represent him or her. a person directly responsible for a crime, either as an actual perpetrator or as an abettor present at its commission. Compare accessory (def 3). 1
- noun principalship a person primarily liable for an obligation, in contrast with an endorser, or the like. 1
- noun principalship the main body of an estate, or the like, as distinguished from income. 1
- noun principalship Finance. a capital sum, as distinguished from interest or profit. 1
- noun principalship Music. an organ stop. the subject of a fugue. 1
- noun principalship (in a framed structure) a member, as a truss, upon which adjacent or similar members depend for support or reinforcement. 1
- noun principalship each of the combatants in a duel, as distinguished from the seconds. 1