| Subject | English | Norwegian Bokmål |
| environ. | cause for concern principle Principle connected with the precautionary principle: it means that, if there are strong reasons for expecting serious or irreversible damage to the environment following a given project, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. Critics of this approach are concerned about large commitments of resources to deal with vaguely defined problems | bekymringsgrunnlag |
| math. | coherency principle | koherens prinsippet |
| immigr. | Common Basic Principles | felles grunnleggende prinsipper |
| environ. | community-pays principle A tenet of environmental policy, according to which the costs of ecological challenges, environmental quality improvements and the removal of environmental hazards are allotted to community groups or local corporations and, thereby, to the general public | fellesskapet-betaler-prinsipp |
| math. | conditionality principle | kondisjonalitet prinsippet |
| immigr. | first asylum principle | første asylland |
| comp., MS | Generally Accepted Accounting Principles | god regnskapsskikk (A widely accepted set of accounting conventions, rules, and standards for United States companies) |
| math. | invariance principle | Donskers teorem |
| comp., MS | matching principle | samsvarsprinsipp (A rule that specifies whether matching cost and revenue on a fixed-price project should be handled as one transaction (sales value) or as two transactions (production + profit)) |
| math. | minimax principle | minimax prinsippet |
| math. | minimax regret principle | minimax angrer prinsippet |
| math. | missing information principle | manglende informasjon prinsippet |
| math. | missing information principle | Efron selvbildet konsistens algoritme |
| environ. | polluter-pays principle The principle that those causing pollution should meet the costs to which it gives rise | forurenser-betaler-prinsipp |
| el., sec.sys. | principle failure | prinsippsvikt |
| immigr. | principle of equal treatment | prinsippet om likebehandling |
| comp., MS | Principles for the data access and the testability of digital documents | Prinsippene for datatilgang og testbarhet for digitale dokumenter (A German law that requires tax authorities to be capable of digitally checking data from electronic bookkeeping systems) |
| comp., MS | reduction principle | reduksjonsprinsipp (A method for specifying the consumption of sales forecast requirements and purchase forecast requirements that are used in master scheduling) |
| environ. | trinity of principles trias of environmental policy principles: precautionary, originator (polluter-pays) and cooperation principle; Three fundamental principles of environmental policy: precautionary principle, polluter pays-principle and cooperation principle | tre prinsipper |