stipulation

About 1.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
2. noun Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.

   The stipulations of the contract won't allow you to do that.

3. noun The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
4. noun A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.

Similar words

precondition specification condition stipulate stipulated obligation proviso rule demand assertion

Often followed by

that of in to for was is as or

Word family

stipulations stipulatory