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Fundamental norms, rules, or values that represent what is desirable and positive for a person, group, organization, or community, and help it in determining the rightfulness or wrongfulness of its actions. Principles are more basic than policy and objectives, and are meant to govern both. See also principle.
n. 1. a standard or rule of personal conduct: a man of principle. 2. (often plural) a set of such moral rules: he'd stoop to anything; he has no principles. 3. adherence to such a moral code; morality: it's not the money but the principle of the thing; torn between principle and expediency.