The difference between Chancellor and Principal

When used as nouns, chancellor means a senior secretary or official with administrative or legal duties, sometimes in charge of some area of government such as finance or justice, whereas principal means the money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

Principal is also adjective with the meaning: primary.

check bellow for the other definitions of Chancellor and Principal

  1. Chancellor as a noun:

    A senior secretary or official with administrative or legal duties, sometimes in charge of some area of government such as finance or justice.

    Examples:

    "'Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster  [[Lord Chancellor Lord Chancellor]]"

  2. Chancellor as a noun:

    The head of the government in some German-speaking countries.

    Examples:

    "synonyms Reichskanzler q1=historical"

    "the Austrian Chancellor'"

  3. Chancellor as a noun (Christianity):

    A senior record keeper of a cathedral; a senior legal officer for a bishop or diocese in charge of hearing cases involving ecclesiastical law.

  4. Chancellor as a noun (education):

    The head of a university, sometimes purely ceremonial.

  5. Chancellor as a noun (Britain):

  6. Chancellor as a noun (Scotland):

    The foreman of a jury.

  7. Chancellor as a noun (US, law):

    The chief judge of a court of chancery (that is, one exercising equity jurisdiction).

  1. Principal as an adjective:

    Primary; most important.

    Examples:

    "Smith is the principal architect of this design."

    "The principal cause of the failure was poor planning."

  2. Principal as an adjective (obsolete, Latinism):

    Of or relating to a prince; princely.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Edmund Spenser"

  1. Principal as a noun (finance, uncountable):

    The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

    Examples:

    "A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest."

  2. Principal as a noun (North America, Australia, New Zealand):

    The chief administrator of a school.

  3. Principal as a noun (UK, Canada):

    The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.

  4. Principal as a noun (legal):

    A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.

    Examples:

    "When an attorney represents a client, the client is the principal who permits the attorney, the client′s agent, to act on the client′s behalf."

    "My principal sells metal shims."

  5. Principal as a noun (legal):

    The primary participant in a crime.

  6. Principal as a noun (North America):

    A partner or owner of a business.

  7. Principal as a noun (music):

    A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.

  8. Principal as a 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.

  9. Principal as a noun:

    The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

    "rfquotek J. H. Walsh"

  10. Principal as a noun:

    One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Oxf. Gloss."

  11. Principal as a noun (obsolete):

    An essential point or rule; a principle.

  12. Principal as a noun:

    A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

  13. Principal as a noun (computing):

    A security principal.

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