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What does in principle mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word in principle? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. With regard to the fundamentals, but not to the particulars.
  2. According to theory.
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There is nothing that justifies this demand, and nothing that supports the belief that it is satisfiable even in principle.
By contrast, in other societies both sexes are, in principle, treated equally in terms of educational opportunities and attainments.
Such semantic-functional categories can in principle be used across different semiotic modes in a way that formal linguistic categories cannot.
The civil servants on these committees are, in principle, members of a team and not departmental spokesmen.
West Wiltshire District Council has agreed in principle to free up some land for the proposed redevelopment of the waterside area of Trowbridge.
The island receives broadband internet via large masts which transmit to special receivers mounted on homes, similar in principle to TV aerials.

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