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Stipulate

verb

(past & past part. stipulated; pres. part. stipulating)

Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement. Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify. "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"

Give a guarantee or promise of.

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

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"Stipulate" Quotes from Famous Books

... point they were labouring, was to prevail upon the captain to accompany them. But though he had fixed upon a quite different plan, which was to go to the northward, yet he thought it politic at present seemingly to acquiesce with them, in order to keep them quiet. When they began to stipulate with him, that he should be under some restrictions in point of command, and should do nothing without consulting his officers, he insisted upon the full exercise of his authority as before. This broke all measures between them, and they were from this time determined he should ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 • Robert Kerr

... could he immediately go on with the grand subject in any frame of mind which would tend to further his own interests. Having been invited to lunch, he could not haggle with due persistency for his share of the business in crushing Lady Mason, nor stipulate that the whole concern should not be trusted to the management of Round and Crook. As a source of pride this invitation to eat was pleasant to him, but he was forced to acknowledge to himself that ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... as I please, which will be only till my uncle can move, for I must get rid of all these servants and paraphernalia, and in the meantime they are concocting the amicable adjustment, and Mr. Morrison said he should try to stipulate for a maintenance for my uncle, but he was not sure of it, without giving up what may yet come from Peru. Jane's annuity is safe—that is a comfort! What work I had to make her believe it! and now she wants us all to ...

— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. II) • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Rattler or to his master she did not stipulate; perhaps she meant both of them. At any rate, she caught the horse again and mounted, a great deal more cautiously than she had at first, in spite of Ward's threats and entreaties. She got fairly into the saddle and stayed ...

— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower

... Convention of Holland stipulate that the materials used in soft-soap making must not contain more than 5 per cent. rosin; it is also interesting to note that a patent has been granted (Eng. Pat. 17,278, 1900) for the manufacture of soft soap from material containing 50 ...

— The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons

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