principal noun (MONEY) âº [ C usually singular ] specialized finance & economics an amount of money that someone has invested in a bank or lent to a person or organization so that they will receive interest on it from the bank, person, or organization: She lives off the interest and tries to keep the principal intact.
A Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO or quadro) is an court order that governs how retirement benefits are to be divided between two people, usually as part of a divorce settlement. The quadro legally recognizes another persons right to share in someone's retirement benefits.
quadra f (plural quadras) 1  block of buildings. 2  sport venue; court. ( 3 Poetry) a quatrain. 4  season, period, time Quadra festiva. ( 5 lottery): a set of four numbers. ( 6 card games) four. 7  quadrangle. 8  large square compound where samba schools practice.