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principal

[prin-suh-puhl] / ˈprɪn sə pəl /




NOUN
original amount of property either owned or owed
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If properly managed and funded, after five years, “all of the principal will be deemed an unavailable asset if you apply for Medicaid.”

From MarketWatch

“We may not be at the end of this situation, but we could be at the beginning of the end,” said Mona Mahajan, principal, head of investment strategy and asset allocation at Edward Jones.

From Barron's

A majority see him as focused on problems abroad rather than at home, and on problems other than their principal concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Until recently, while stellar rotation was thought to be part of solving this conundrum, limited computing abilities prevented us from quantitatively testing the hypothesis," says Falk Herwig, principal investigator and director of ARC.

From Science Daily

Apollo said that Nippon Sheet’s principal lenders would effectively swap a portion of their outstanding loans for equity to shore up its balance sheet.

From The Wall Street Journal