in principle

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

in ˈprinciple idiom
1. if something can be done in principle, there is no good reason why it should not be done although it has not yet been done and there may be some difficulties
• In principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be able to do one day.
2. in general but not in detail
• They have agreed to the proposal in principle but we still have to negotiate the terms.
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