Stipulate

Quick meaning: Stipulate is a verb meaning (transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.

Meaning

(transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
2. (US, transitive, formal, law) To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
3. (intransitive, followed by for) To ask for a contractual term.
4. (intransitive, formal, law) To mutually agree.
5. (botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.

Example Sentences

The defense stipulates that the witness has identified my client.

Although another person cannot stipulate for us, yet in our stipulations we can associate with ourselves another person who stipulates for the same performance, and is called an adstipulator.

In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.

The parties stipulate that Exhibits 1 through 3 accompanied the initial Verified Complaint and Jury Demand, and that they are displayed in this text in the Exhibits section solely for clarity of the layout.

Word Forms

• stipulates
• stipulating
• stipulated

Synonyms for stipulate

Depending on context, synonyms include condition, specify, qualify.

Antonyms for stipulate

Common opposites include exstipulate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include qualify, specify, condition, stipulation, advocate, dictate.

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