stipulate
(verb) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force
stipulate, qualify, condition, specify
(verb) 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”
stipulate
(verb) give a guarantee or promise of; “They stipulated to release all the prisoners”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
stipulate (third-person singular simple present stipulates, present participle stipulating, simple past and past participle stipulated)
(transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
(transitive) To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge. E.g. "The defense stipulates that the witness has identified my client."
stipulate (not comparable)
(botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.
• exstipulate
Source: Wiktionary
Stip"u*late, a. (Bot.)
Definition: Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.
Stip"u*late, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stipulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Stipulating.] Etym: [L. stipulatus, p.p. of stipulari to stipulate, fr. OL. stipulus firm, fast; probably akin to L. stipes a post. Cf. Stiff.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
