1
[ verb ] specify as a condition

Examples

"The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"

Used in print

(The New York Times,...)

The Charter does stipulate that `` due regard '' shall be paid to the importance of recruiting the staff on `` as wide a geographical basis as possible '' .

(Selma Jeanne Cohen, "Avant-Garde Choreography"...)

The process stipulates that the choreographer sense the quality of the initial movement he has discovered and that he feel the rightness of the quality that is to follow it .

2
[ verb ] make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force

Related terms

contract Roman_law

3
[ verb ] give a guarantee or promise of

Examples

"They stipulated to release all the prisoners"

Related terms

guarantee

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