Stipulate
['stɪpjʊleɪt] or ['stɪpjulet]
Definition
(verb.) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force.
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) give a guarantee or promise of; 'They stipulated to release all the prisoners'.
Editor: Lou--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.
(v. i.) 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.
Editor: Pratt
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Bargain, agree, contract, engage, covenant, provide.
Checked by Barlow
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bargain, agree, contract, covenant, engage, condition, provide
ANT:Retract, decline, refuse, withdraw, revoke, disagree, deprecate, protest,recant
Checker: Tessie
Definition
v.i. to contract: to settle terms.—ns. Stipulā′tion act of stipulating: a contract; Stip′ulātor.
Checker: Sumner
Examples
- It fell to his lot, now, to stipulate for secrecy. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Neither did she ever give me any money,--or anything but my daily dinner,--nor ever stipulate that I should be paid for my services. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Still, Mr. Tulkinghorn, sir, I must stipulate that if you have any word with me, that word is spoken in the presence of my friend. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You will stipulate, I see, for peculiar terms--what will they be? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- By way of making the white one whiter, Bella hastened to stipulate that he was not in pain. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Although we appeared at the stipulated place a quarter of an hour before the time, we found Mr. Micawber already there. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- As it was, she merely stipulated, If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He finished it, was paid the stipulated sum, and immediately spent it in fresh experiments to find the coveted enamel. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I should wish, Lawyer Lightwood,' he stipulated, 'to have that T'other Governor as my witness that what I said I said. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He asked his partner to explain the invention to him; 'having a lenient consideration,' he stipulated, 'for my being no workman, Doyce. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- While living in Galena I was nominally only a clerk supporting myself and family on a stipulated salary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I don't say, you know,' Mr Boffin stipulated, 'but what it may be more than enough. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For this she stipulates herself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In stipulating for it, he had been impelled by a feeling little short of desperation, and the feeling abided by him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They drew up a legal agreement to this effect, dated May 27, 1793, and stipulating that all the profits should be equally divided between them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Jane, I will be your brother--my sisters will be your sisters--without stipulating for this sacrifice of your just rights. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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