Usually means: Primary leaders in educational institutions.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word principals:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. principals: Merriam-Webster
  2. principals: Collins English Dictionary
  3. principals: Vocabulary.com
  4. Principal's, Principals, principal's, principals: Wordnik
  5. principals: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. principals: Wiktionary
  7. principals: Dictionary.com
  8. principals: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Principals: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. principals: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Principals: Legal dictionary
  4. Principals: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Principals: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Principals: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See principal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (principal)

adjective:  Primary; most important; first level in importance.
adjective:  (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
adjective:  (mathematics) Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
noun:  (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
noun:  (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The chief administrator of a school.
noun:  (UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
noun:  (law) 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.
noun:  (law) The primary participant in a crime.
noun:  Either party in a duel.
noun:  (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
noun:  (music) A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.
noun:  (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.
noun:  The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
noun:  One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
noun:  (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
noun:  A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
noun:  (computing) A security principal.
noun:  A main character or lead actor.
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