principal value
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Their principal value is adjusted upward when prices rise.
From Barron's ● May 30, 2026
“An investor could lose the full principal value of his/her investment within a single day if the price of the underlying security falls by more than 50% in one trading day.”
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Then you might not get your regular income payment, and you could even lose a hefty chunk of your principal value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The principal value that Garland and the Justice Department are concerned with is the rule of law.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2021
Valuable as the work of all these men is in itself, its principal value, as he has finally demonstrated, is that which it acquires in rendering possible the work of the architect.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by Romanes, George John
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