Premier vs Principal - What's the difference?
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Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
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(politics, UK, Westminster system) The leader of the government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
# (politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.
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# (politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The government leader in parliament and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliamentary system.
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(politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
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(nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.
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Primary; most important.
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(obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
(finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
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(North America, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
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(UK, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
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(legal) One who directs another (the agent) to act on one?s behalf.
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(legal) The primary participant in a crime.
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A company represented by a salesperson.
(senseid) (North America) A partner or owner of a business.
(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
(architecture, engineering) 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.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
(obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
As a noun premier
is prime minister.As an adjective principal is
principal, main.premier
English
Adjective
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- This failure, for a team associated with one of the premier Australian Rules Football teams with the longest of traditions, is truly enormous.
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- If they?d followed the advice they had received more carefully, they would have paired up with John Fairfax Holdings, later Fairfax Media, Australia?s premier independent media company.
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- South Africa?s golfing greats battle it out on one of the country?s premier courses.
See also
* preeminent, primary, primeNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia premier)page 910,
- Mr. Gladstone had literally no option. Not to coerce the Lords was to coerce the Commons to continue purchase in spite of their repeated votes for its abolition, and this the Premier had as little the power as the will to do.
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- More surprising than the company?s activities and interests were those of the premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn.
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- The major concern of most of the premiers who attended the 1887 conference was, as Macdonald well understood, to put pressure upoon Ottawa to amend the B.N.A. Act to increase the subsidies paid to the provinces by tying them to current population levels rather than those of 1860.
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- John Forrest had dominated the fledgling state of Western Australia, serving as premier for the previous decade.
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- In 1890 it was South Australian Premier Charles Cameron Kingston who first proposed a system of compulsory conciliation and arbitration to deal with industrial unrest.
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- In 2009 Kristina Keneally became Labor premier in NSW in similar circumstances to her predecessors in Western Australia and Victoria - a Labor government that was in deep trouble because of mismanagement and corruption scandals.
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- This shows that our policy of strengthening friendly ties with Africa as developed by Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai is a correct one and that it has won popular support in Africa.
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- Actual decision-making power in China resides in the state?s executive organs and in the CCP. At the national level the top government executive organ is the State Council, which is led by the premier .
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- So, in the case of Russia and some other states, the head of state is the president (who is elected) and who then can name the premier' and the cabinet ministers. The intent of this system is for the president to be popularly elected and to exercise political leadership, while the ' premier runs the everyday operations of government and leads the legislative power.
Usage notes
Often capitalised, especially when used as a title. In British English, prime minister and premier''''' are interchangeable, while in Australia and Canada, the federal leader is the prime minister and the state/provincial leaders are ' premier s. The term prime minister is commonly a synonym also in non-Westminster system contextsSynonyms
* (parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a national parliament) prime minister, first minister * (parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliament) first minister * (head of government in a non-Westminster system) prime minister * (second-in-command on a ship) first lieutenant, first mateSee also
* premiere * king, queen, president * governor * first ministerVerb
(en verb)- The composer invited all his friends when they premiered the movie he orchestrated, we got to see it before anyone but the crew.
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- Beethoven at first promised Schuppanzigh the right to premier' Opus 127, but Linke, cellist in Schuppanzigh?s Quartet, had also received Beethoven?s permission to ' premier the work at a special benefit concert for himself.
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- So what I want to do is try to premier the new piece with the other piece, and have just a big splash in the city.
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- To premier the record and to show that they were still able to perform, the Stones made a surprise appearance at the New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert on May 12 in Wembley Stadium.
principal
English
Alternative forms
* principall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Smith is the principal architect of this design.
- The principal cause of the failure was poor planning.
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- In a word, the Epi?odes of Homer'' are complete Epi?odes; they are proper to the ?ubject, because they are drawn from the ground of the fable; they are ?o joined to the principal''' action, that one is the nece??ary con?equence of the other, either truly or probably: and la?tly, they are imperfect members which do not make a complete and fini?hed body; for an Epi?ode that makes a complete action, cannot be part of a ' principal action; as is e??ential to all Epi?odes.
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- The principal treasure of ths department, however, is the Stele of Hammurabi (1792—1750 B.C.), king of the first Babylonian kingdom, a basalt cylinder 2.25m/7ft 5in. inscribed with Hammurabi?s laws written in Akkadian in cuneiform script.
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- In theory, there are the same number of principal' components as there are variables, but in practice, usually only a few of the ' principal components need to be identified to account for most of the data variance.
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Usage notes
Principal'' should not be confused with principle. ''Principle'' is always a noun, which is sometimes erroneously used with the meaning of the adjective ''principal . * Incorrect: He is the principle musician in the band * Correct: He is the principal musician in the band A mnemonic to avoid this confusion is "The principal'' alphabetic ''principle'' places ''A'' before ''E ". Principal'' is generally not used in the comparative or superlative in formal writing, as the meaning is already superlative. However, one may occasionally see, e.g., ''more principal'' meaning ''more likely to be principal'' or ''more nearly principal . There are similar issues with unique.Synonyms
* (primary) chief, main, primaryNoun
- A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal , and the rest covers interest.
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- In March 1902, I find in the statement of liabilities and assets £711 put down as arrears of interest, but there is no entry of arrears of principal .
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- For instance, in some states, dividends that have automatically been reinvested will be treated as principal .
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- If you know the principal amount, the interest rate, and the number of years the payments will be made, you can consult an amortization calculator or schedule to arrive at the monthly payment.
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- The important administrative figure to the teacher is the school principal .
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- The problem was neatly summed up by one principal in Australia who said recently: ‘There is no incentive for me to develop my best teachers to become my successor.’
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- Now renamed Teaching Australia, its officers are undertaking exploratory steps in developing professional standards for school leaders. A National Standards Drafting Group of volunteer principals' is currently drafting ' principal standards (Teaching Australia, 2007).
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- Principals are now being held more accountable for the performance of students and teachers, while at the same time they are required to adhere to a growing number of government regulations.
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- Unlike the students, Principal' Robertson, who now resided almost alone in the College, continued to use the accistomed route on his visits to the Old Town; and it “became the joke of the day that from being the principal gate it had become only a gate for the ' Principal .”5
- ''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.
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- The firm admitted the amount owed, but averred as an affirmative defense that it had hired the expert as an agent of a disclosed principal , the client.
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- A food broker has been defined as an independent sales agent who performs the services of negotiating the sale of food and/or grocery products for and on account of the seller as principal .
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- An attorney-in-fact has a duty to act solely in yhe interest of the principal and to avoid conflicts of interest.
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- The accessories may be prosecuted, tried and punished, though the principal has not been prosecuted or has been acquitted.
- My principal sells metal shims.
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