stipulate

To arrange or settle definitely, or by special mention and agreement, or as a special condition: as, it is stipulated that A shall pay 5 per cent.

As commonly used in law, damages liquidated by a stipulation—that is, a sum fixed by a contract or obligation in such manuer as to be the sum payable in case of breach, without any further question as to the amount of the actual damages.

In botany, having stipules: as, a stipulate stalk or leaf.

adjective

Furnished with stipules.

intransitive verb

To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms.

adjective

Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.

verb

To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.

verb

To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.

verb

To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.

verb

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