stipulate

Meanings

Verb

• To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
• To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
• To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
• To ask for a contractual term.
• To mutually agree.

Adjective

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

Related

Opposite words

• exstipulate

Origin

• From Latin stipulātus, perfect active participle of stipulor.
• stipule + -ate