Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.

  2. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Abmachung, Ausbedingung, Bestimmung

    условиеuslovije

    a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement

  3. (countable, uncountable)The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Stipulations were made.

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  2. As a signatory to the treaty, our country is bound by its stipulations.

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  3. They released him with the stipulation that he should not go out of town until the investigation was complete.

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  4. In absence of any stipulation regarding the capital city of Japan, strictly speaking, Tokyo is nothing more than a de facto capital.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin stipulātiō.

Borrowed from Latin stipulātiō.

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Forms

plural: stipulations
Singularstipulation
Pluralstipulations

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement:specification
  • (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record:judicial admission
  • an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else:conditionprecondition

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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