principal value
Americannoun
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With individual TIPS, the inflation adjustment builds over time as an increase in principal value that isn’t realized until maturity or sale.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Semiannual interest is added to the principal value of the bond, compounding over the life of the bond.
From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025
The principal value that Garland and the Justice Department are concerned with is the rule of law.
From Slate • Jun. 14, 2021
But it’s the principal value — fear? — that animates those souls hopelessly devoted to barbecue.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2017
These, with a few emblematic figures, all admirably well executed, make its principal value.
From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de
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