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stipulate

UK/ˈstɪpjuˌleɪt/US/ˈstɪpjuˌleɪt/
verbC2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,895 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: stipulated, stipulates, stipulating

To stipulate is to state a requirement as part of an agreement. The contract stipulates, stipulate a deadline, as stipulated.

It is legal language and it means the term is binding rather than merely mentioned, which is the whole force of the word. What a contract stipulates is what a court will enforce, and everything else is background.

Definitions of stipulate

  1. 1verbstipulateTo state a requirement as part of an agreement.C2

    “The club rules stipulate that all players must wear white on the court.”

stipulate is a requiring.

Where it comes from

Latin stipulari means to demand a formal promise, of uncertain further origin.

  1. Latin

    stipulor

  2. English, today

    stipulate

Built from

  • stipulor · Latin — to demand a formal promise, stipulate

Borrowed from Latin stipulor. From Latin stipulātus, perfect active participle of stipulor (“to demand a formal promise, stipulate”), see -ate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

stipulate in the wild

  • Most performing contracts stipulate which body parts may be used in the final product.

    Nudity clause

  • For example, both parties might stipulate to certain facts and so not have to argue them in court.

    Stipulation

  • Even further to this, some professional wrestling matches will stipulate a time limit, within which a wrestler must win if they wish to avoid a time-limit draw.

    Ring announcer

  • The German State Railway Wagon Association could, unlike the Prussian State Railway Wagon Association, stipulate standard wagon designs for the whole of Germany.

    German State Railway Wagon Association

  • However, the article does not stipulate a specific timeframe for this election.

    Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.