stipulates

Verb

stipulate (third-person singular simple present stipulates, present participle stipulating, simple past and past participle stipulated)

1. (transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
   • In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726

   Synonyms:

   provide

2. (transitive) To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
   • Out of special love and affection they stipulate that the survivor shall remain in full possession and use the entire temporal estate which they leave behind and none of the heirs shall demand an account or proof or balance so that the survivor may manage the estate in the manner he or she thinks...1990, Irene English Shoemaker, Van Buskirk: A Legacy from New Amsterdam
3. (US, formal, transitive) To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
   • The defense stipulates that the witness has identified my client.
4. (intransitive) To ask for a contractual term.
   • Although another person cannot stipulate for us, yet in our stipulations we can associate with ourselves another person who stipulates for the same performance, and is called an adstipulator.2020 March 26, Gaius, Institutes of Roman Law, Jazzybee Verlag, →ISBN
5. (formal, intransitive) To mutually agree.
   • We will stipulate to our receipt of all pertinent discovery documents.

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