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say it: STI-pyuh-layt
stipulate is a verb meaning "specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
give a guarantee or promise of
“They stipulated to release all the prisoners”
make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force
Roman law
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stipulate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.