STIPULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stipulate mean? 

• STIPULATE (verb)
  The verb STIPULATE has 3 senses:

1. specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement

2. give a guarantee or promise of

3. make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force

  Familiarity information: STIPULATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STIPULATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stipulate    ... he / she / it stipulates   
Past simple: stipulated   
Past participle: stipulated   
-ing form: stipulating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

condition; qualify; specify; stipulate

Context example:

The contract stipulates the dates of the payments

Hypernyms (to "stipulate" is one way to...):

contract; undertake (enter into a contractual arrangement)

Verb group:

stipulate (give a guarantee or promise of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stipulate"):

provide (determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

stipulation (a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement)

stipulatory (constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give a guarantee or promise of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

They stipulated to release all the prisoners

Hypernyms (to "stipulate" is one way to...):

guarantee; vouch (give surety or assume responsibility)

Verb group:

condition; qualify; specify; stipulate (specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "stipulate" is one way to...):

contract; undertake (enter into a contractual arrangement)

Domain category:

civil law; jus civile; Justinian code; Roman law (the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

We must have had some, because Dora stipulated that we were never to be married without her papa's consent.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A type of study that stipulates both the health provider and the subject be aware of the drug or treatment assignment.

(Open label study, NCI Thesaurus)

Jane, I will be your brother—my sisters will be your sisters—without stipulating for this sacrifice of your just rights.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A domestic group, or a number of domestic groups linked through descent (demonstrated or stipulated) from a common ancestor, marriage, or adoption.

(Family, NCI Thesaurus)

I sat in silent dejection until the stipulated time had passed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He undertook to produce a man who should be within the age limits stipulated, and I understand that Harrison fulfils all the conditions. You are over five-and-thirty, Harrison?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A printed, optical, or electronic document designed to record all of the clinical study-required information stipulated in the protocol to be reported to the sponsor on each clinical trial subject.

(Case Report Form, NCI Thesaurus)

At length a man came from a distance and wooed her, who was called Hans; but he stipulated that Clever Elsie should be really smart.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In a study, Dr Hunt reveals the new tool shows the 'safe' limit of BPA stipulated by the US Food and Drug Administration is flawed.

(Humans exposed to far more hormone-disrupting chemicals than thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The East room, as it had been called ever since Maria Bertram was sixteen, was now considered Fanny's, almost as decidedly as the white attic: the smallness of the one making the use of the other so evidently reasonable that the Miss Bertrams, with every superiority in their own apartments which their own sense of superiority could demand, were entirely approving it; and Mrs. Norris, having stipulated for there never being a fire in it on Fanny's account, was tolerably resigned to her having the use of what nobody else wanted, though the terms in which she sometimes spoke of the indulgence seemed to imply that it was the best room in the house.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)