| 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 |
| 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 |
| environ. | co-operation principle | samarbeidsprinsipp |
| immigr. | first asylum principle | første asylland |
| comp., MS | flushing principle | trekkprinsipp (The method that is used to register item consumption for a BOM line against a production order) |
| 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 |
| environ. | precautionary principle Principle adopted by the UN Conference on Environment and Development (1992) that in order to protect the environment, a precautionary approach should be widely applied, meaning that where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage to the environment, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation | føre-var-prinsipp |
| el., sec.sys. | principle failure | prinsippsvikt |
| immigr. | principle of equal treatment | prinsippet om likebehandling |
| environ. | principle of sustainability Principle stated by the World Commission on Environment and Development (The Bruntland Commission) in 1987: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations. Sustainable development is a process of integrating economic, social and ecological goals, and should not mean a trade-off between the environment and development. Sustainable development should imply balance rather than conflict | bærekraftighetsprinsipp |
| 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. | subsidiary principle The fundamental doctrine or tenet that policy making decisions should be made at the most decentralized level, in which a centralized governing body would not take action unless it it is more effective than action taken at a lower government level | subsidiaritetsprinsipp |
| 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 |