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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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Our own answer must be a universal one, applicable in principle to all comparable cases.
West Wiltshire District Council has agreed in principle to free up some land for the proposed redevelopment of the waterside area of Trowbridge.
There is nothing that justifies this demand, and nothing that supports the belief that it is satisfiable even in principle.
The civil servants on these committees are, in principle, members of a team and not departmental spokesmen.
In my judgment the authorities support this conclusion which I have reached in principle.
I am not in favour of the monarchy in principle but am basically in favour of the monarchy in practice.

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