principal sum

1. 1.

   capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

   Synonymsprincipalcorpus

   Broadercapital

Questions about principal sum

What does principal sum mean?

principal sum means "capital as contrasted with the income derived from it".

What is another word for principal sum?

Close synonyms include principal, corpus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is principal sum a common word?

principal sum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.