stipulation.
The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
Meaning & usage
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.
The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steyp-der. Proto-Italic *stips Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-elā Proto-Italic *stipelā Latin stipula? ▲ Proto-Italic *stipelā Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *stipelāō? Latin stipulārī Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin stipulātiōbor. English stipulation Borrowed from Latin stipulātiō.
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