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STIPULATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Example:

The contract stipulates the dates of the payments

Synonyms:

condition; qualify; specify; stipulate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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 3

Meaning:

Give a guarantee or promise of

Example:

They stipulated to release all the prisoners

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

He did not stipulate for any particular sum, my dear Fanny; he only requested me, in general terms, to assist them, and make their situation more comfortable than it was in his power to do.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The reader may please to observe, that, in the last article of the recovery of my liberty, the emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 Lilliputians.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Your musical knowledge alone would entitle you to name your own terms, have as many rooms as you like, and mix in the family as much as you chose;—that is—I do not know—if you knew the harp, you might do all that, I am very sure; but you sing as well as play;—yes, I really believe you might, even without the harp, stipulate for what you chose;—and you must and shall be delightfully, honourably and comfortably settled before the Campbells or I have any rest.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

All that she, Mrs. Crupp, stipulated for, was, that she should not be “brought in contract” with such persons.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You will stipulate, I see, for peculiar terms—what will they be?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Although we appeared at the stipulated place a quarter of an hour before the time, we found Mr. Micawber already there.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With respect to the pecuniary assistance enabling us to launch our frail canoe on the ocean of enterprise, I have reconsidered that important business-point; and would beg to propose my notes of hand—drawn, it is needless to stipulate, on stamps of the amounts respectively required by the various Acts of Parliament applying to such securities—at eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty months.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The caul was won, I recollect, by an old lady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from it the stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopence halfpenny short—as it took an immense time and a great waste of arithmetic, to endeavour without any effect to prove to her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)