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Stipulate

verb

(past & past part. stipulated; pres. part. stipulating)

Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement. Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify. "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"

Give a guarantee or promise of.

Make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force.

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... useful, necessary, and even politic to stipulate for perfect freedom of action for parents, daughters, ...

— Modeste Mignon • Honore de Balzac

... averted! how many more really elegant interesting women would be added to the charm of society, usefulness to country, happiness and sanctity of home! Had I means to bestow in such enterprises, I should like to endow some institution, and stipulate for a chair of household-arts-and-sciences-and-home-duties; and Regina should not go into general society until ...

— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... results a second visit follows for weighing and packing. He is of course well up in market values, probably receiving a telegram every morning, when trade is active, from the great wool-trade centre, Bradford. He is not unwilling to give a special price for quality, but will sometimes stipulate for secrecy as to the sum, because farmers, naturally, compare notes, and everyone thinks himself entitled to the top price no matter how inferior or badly washed his wool may be. The Bradford stapler has the northern ...

— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory

... to him that he might undertake his autobiography, and stipulate that it should only be published after his death. He told me that his health being so uncertain and his earnings so precarious, he had thought the autobiography might be a resource for me in case of his premature decease, as he saw clearly that notwithstanding the considerable ...

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al

... the white one whiter, Bella hastened to stipulate that he was not in pain. Mrs Milvey was ...

— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens

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