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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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We are quite happy in principle to secure the long term future of the event.
There is nothing that justifies this demand, and nothing that supports the belief that it is satisfiable even in principle.
This all seemed a great idea in principle but of course the numbers don't work.
I am not in favour of the monarchy in principle but am basically in favour of the monarchy in practice.
Our own answer must be a universal one, applicable in principle to all comparable cases.
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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