Stipulate \Stip"u*late\, a. (Bot.)
Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 any person or company
to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle
terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in
resisting the armies of France.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stipulate
v 1: 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" [syn: qualify, condition,
specify]
2: give a guarantee or promise of; "They stipulated to release
all the prisoners"
3: make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of
question and answer that is necessary to give it legal
force
WordNet (r) 2.0
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "stipulate":
agree, agree to, assign, attach a condition, bargain, bargain for,
call for, compact, condition, contend for, contract, covenant,
demand, denominate, designate, detail, determine, do a deal,
engage, fight for, fix, guarantee, have a catch, have a joker,
indicate, insist on, insist upon, make a deal, make conditional,
make contingent, make reservations, mark, mention, name,
particularize, pick out, pin down, point out, promise, provide,
provide for, qualify, require, select, set, set conditions,
set forth, set terms, signify, specialize, specifically provide,
specify, state, stickle for, stipulate for, strive for,
struggle for, undertake, vie for, warrant
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
condition, qualify, specify
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