to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for ).
verb (used with object)
2.
to arrange expressly or specify in terms of agreement: to stipulate a price.
3.
to require as an essential condition in making an agreement: Total disarmament was stipulated in the peace treaty.
4.
to promise, in making an agreement.
5.
Law.to accept (a proposition) without requiring that it be established by proof: to stipulate the existence of certain facts or that an expert witness is qualified.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
Origin: 1615–25; < Latinstipulātus (past participle of stipulārī to demand a formal agreement), apparently equivalent to stipul- (see stipule) + -ātus-ate1
(tr; may take a clause as object) to specify, often as a condition of an agreement
2.
to insist (on) as a term of an agreement
3.
Roman law to make (an oral contract) in the form of question and answer necessary to render it legally valid
4.
(tr; may take a clause as object) to guarantee or promise
[C17: from Latin stipulārī, probably from Old Latin stipulus firm, but perhaps from stipula a stalk, from the convention of breaking a straw to ratify a promise]