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Specify as a condition
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stipulate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES regulations stipulate sth (= state what must be done ) ▪ The hospital regulations stipulate minimum staffing levels. the agreed/stipulated/recommended maximum (= one that is agreed between people ) ▪ A pregnant woman ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement. 2 To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement. 3 To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge. Etymology 2 (context botany English) Having stipules; that ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stipulate \Stip"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stipulated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stipulating .] [L. stipulatus, p. p. of stipulari to stipulate, fr. OL. stipulus firm, fast; probably akin to L. stipes a post. Cf. Stiff .] To make an agreement or covenant with ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "bargain, make a contract" (intransitive), back-formation from stipulation , or else from Latin stipulatus , past participle of stipulari "exact (a promise), bargain for." Transitive sense of "demand as a condition" is from 1640s. Related: Stipulated ...
Usage examples of stipulate.
Individually at first, then in small groups, they began to retrace their paths, returning to their home vessels, where they automatically reberthed themselves, repressurized locks, and reestablished stipulated connections.
The pope still continued to thunder out his excommunications against Lewis and all the adherents of the schismatical council: the Swiss cantons made professions of violent animosity against France: the ambassadors of Ferdinand and Maximilian had signed with those of Henry a treaty of alliance against that power, and had stipulated the time and place of their intended invasion: and though Ferdinand disavowed his ambassador, and even signed a truce for a twelvemonth with the common enemy, Henry was not yet fully convinced of his selfish and sinister intentions, and still hoped for his concurrence after the expiration of that term.
According to her, he did not adhere to the stipulated diet, he pared his nails with an iron knife, had his hair cut with an iron razor, and wore knots and buckles.
On their heels came the small podium held between four sturdy slaves, who placed it in the exact center at the back of the pool and proceeded to cover it neatly with a tapestry cloth in the stipulated Tyrian purple, so dark it was almost black.
Congress creates a binding obligation to pay the debt as stipulated and cannot thereafter vary the terms of its agreement.
Shortly after the first world war, it sustained, by a narrow margin, a rent control law for the District of Columbia, which not merely limited the rents which might be charged but which also gave the existing tenants the right to continue in occupancy of their dwellings at their own option, provided they paid rent and performed other stipulated conditions.
In a fictitious statement of facts, it was stipulated that the carriages involved in the case were kept exclusively for the personal use of the owner and not for hire.
Conversely, the President may, if dissatisfied with amendments which have been affixed by the Senate to a proposed treaty or with the conditions stipulated by it to ratification, decide to abandon the negotiation, which he is entirely free to do.
Because of the constitutional doubts of the President the act was accompanied by an explanatory joint resolution which stipulated that only a life estate terminating with the death of the offender could be sold and that at his death his children could take the fee simple by descent as his heirs without deriving any title from the United States.
They stipulated that at the times and places mentioned in the indictments they had had possession of the books for the purpose of offering them for sale to the public.
A law sanctioning contracts requiring that commodities identified by trade mark will not be sold by the vendee or subsequent vendees except at prices stipulated by the original vendor does not violate the due process clause.
Romans acquired the possession of them, they stipulated, at the expense of the usurpers, an ample compensation, which invested their ally with the extensive and fertile country of Atropatene.
It was stipulated by the same treaty, that three royal youths, the sons of emperors, should be called to the hopes of the succession.
A perpetual exemption from all duties was stipulated for their vessels which traded to the ports of the Black Sea.
The original treaty which fixed the settlement of the Goths, ascertained their privileges, and stipulated their obligations, would illustrate the history of Theodosius and his successors.