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principal noun ( MONEY )
/ˈprɪnt .sɪ.pəl/ n Definition
[C usually singular] specialized an amount of money which someone has invested in a bank or lent to a person or organization so that they will receive interest on it from the bank, person or organization
She lives off the interest and tries to keep the principal intact.
(Definition of principal noun (MONEY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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