principal value
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
“Since then, Mr. Reich’s promise that the baby boomers would rework society into three stages of Consciousness has been revealed as so wacky that its principal value now is as a sort of joke.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2019
It would be insulting to suggest of distinguished laureates, who have spent a lifetime in a determined quest for knowledge or excellence, that the principal value of a Nobel prize is monetary.
From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2016
Hailsham's principal value to the traveller is that it is the station for Hurstmonceux; whither, however, we are to journey by another route.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
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