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PRINCIPAL SUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does principal sum mean?
• PRINCIPAL SUM (noun)
The noun PRINCIPAL SUM has 1 sense:
1. capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
Familiarity information: PRINCIPAL SUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
corpus; principal; principal sum
Hypernyms ("principal sum" is a kind of...):
capital (wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value)
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