stipulation
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Etymology edit
From Latin stipulātiō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
stipulation (countable and uncountable, plural stipulations)
- The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
- Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
- The stipulations of the contract won't allow you to do that.
- If I lend you my car, my only stipulation is that you fill up the gas tank before returning it.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 47:
- The acts authorising the subsequent Underground lines would include a stipulation that cheap early morning fares be provided, and the Cheap Trains Act of 1883 would standardise the terms for all railways.
- (botany) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
- (chess) A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.
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something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement
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stipulation f (plural stipulations)
Further reading edit
- “stipulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.