{f} require that certain conditions be met before the signing of a contract; create a formal agreement; specify, require; promise, guarantee (regarding a contract)
To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France
specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
If you stipulate a condition or stipulate that something must be done, you say clearly that it must be done. She could have stipulated that she would pay when she collected the computer International rules stipulate the number of foreign entrants. = specify + stipulation stipulations stipu·la·tion Clifford's only stipulation is that his clients obey his advice. = condition. if an agreement, law, or rule stipulates something, it must be done = state (past participle of stipulari )