stipulation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: stip=u=la=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

stipulation, n. [L. stipulatio: cf. F. stipulation.].

•  The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.  [1913 Webster]
•  A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.  Bouvier. Wharton.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Agreement; contract; engagement. See Covenant.

stipulation, n. [See Stipule.].

 The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

stipulation

accord, agreement, allocation, arrangement, assignment, attribution, bargain, binding agreement, bond, boundary condition, cartel, catch, circumscription, clause, collective agreement, compact, condition, consortium, contract, convention, covenant, covenant of salt, deal, demand, denomination, designation, determination, dicker, donnee, employment contract, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, essential, exception, fine print, fixing, formal agreement, given, grounds, guarantee, ironclad agreement, joker, kicker, legal agreement, legal contract, limit, limiting condition, mutual agreement, obligation, pact, paction, parameter, pinning down, precision, prerequisite, promise, protocol, provision, provisions, proviso, qualification, requirement, requisite, reservation, saving clause, selection, signification, sine qua non, small print, specification, string, strings, term, terms, transaction, ultimatum, understanding, undertaking, union contract, valid contract, wage contract, warranty, whereas

ROGET THESAURUS

stipulation

Promise

N promise, undertaking, word, troth, plight, pledge, parole, word of honor, vow, oath, profession, assurance, warranty, guarantee, insurance, obligation, contract, stipulation, engagement, preengagement, affiance, betroth, betrothal, betrothment, promising, promissory, votive, under hand and seal, upon oath, promised, affianced, pledged, bound, committed, compromised, in for it, as one's head shall answer for, in for a penny in for a pound, ex voto, gage d'amour.

Compact

N compact, contract, agreement, bargain, affidation, pact, paction, bond, covenant, indenture, bundobast, deal, stipulation, settlement, convention, compromise, cartel, Protocol, treaty, concordat, Zollverein, Sonderbund, charter, Magna Charta, Progmatic Sanction, customs union, free trade region, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT, most favored nation status, negotiation, diplomacy, negotiator, ratification, completion, signature, seal, sigil, signet, agreed, conventional, under hand and seal, caveat emptor.

Conditions

N conditions, terms, articles, articles of agreement, memorandum, clauses, provisions, proviso, covenant, stipulation, obligation, ultimatum, sine qua non, casus foederris, conditional, provisional, guarded, fenced, hedged in, conditionally, provisionally, pro re nata, on condition, with a string to it.

Qualification

N qualification, limitation, modification, coloring, allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances, mitigation, condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non, catch, string, strings attached, exemption, exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause, discount, restriction, fine print, qualifying, qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged, conditional, exceptional, hypothetical, contingent, provided, provided that, provided always, if, unless, but, yet, according as, conditionally, admitting, supposing, on the supposition of, with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events, approximately, in a limited degree (smallness), somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak, with grains of allowance, cum grano salis, with a grain of salt, exceptis excipiendis, wind and weather permitting, if possible, subject to, conditioned upon, with this proviso, if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't r, catch-, Degrees of Evidence.