stipulate

About 0.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
2. verb To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
3. verb To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.

   The defense stipulates that the witness has identified my client.

4. verb To ask for a contractual term.
5. verb To mutually agree.

   We will stipulate to our receipt of all pertinent discovery documents.

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

Similar words

qualify specify condition stipulation advocate dictate provide demand establish require

Often followed by

that the for a to in what with how

Word family

stipulated stipulates stipulating stipulator stipulators