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stipulation

/ˌstɪp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/

stipulation noun: the act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.

Noun

stipulation (countable and uncountable, plural stipulations)

  1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
  2. Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
    • The stipulations of the contract won't allow you to do that.
    • If I lend you my car, my only stipulation is that you fill up the gas tank before returning it.
  3. The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
  4. A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.

stipulation meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

stipulation in Tamil

குறிப்பீடு, உடன்படிக்கை, ஒப்பந்தம், கட்டமைப்பு, கட்டுப்பாடு, நிபந்தனை

stipulation in Urdu

عہد, قول, شرط

stipulation in Bengali

something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement
করার korar

stipulation in Malayalam

ഉടമ്പടി, നിബന്ധന, വ്യവസ്ഥ
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stipulation in Kannada
ಒಪ್ಪಂದ, ಕರಾರು, ವಿಧಿಸುವುದು, ಕರಾರು ಮಾಡುವುದು
stipulation in Sanskrit
उद्देश uddeśa

Examples of stipulation in a sentence

  • Stipulation of the order of segments in a morpheme is considered "normal" and, therefore, not templatic.
  • The stipulations of international treaties relative to citizenship, alienship, naturalization, rights and obligations of aliens, remain unprejudiced.
  • It contains no inherent commentary on its stipulations, and no intrinsic propositions concerning whether its effects are sensical or not.

All 11 example sentences with stipulation

Forms of stipulation

pluralstipulations

Plural of stipulation: stipulations

Origin of stipulation

Borrowed from Latin stipulātiō.

Words formed from stipulation

Words that rhyme with stipulation

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Questions about stipulation

What does stipulation mean?
Stipulation means the act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
What is stipulation in Tamil?
Stipulation in Tamil is குறிப்பீடு, உடன்படிக்கை, ஒப்பந்தம். See Stipulation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stipulation?
Stipulation is a noun.
How do you pronounce stipulation?
Stipulation is pronounced /ˌstɪp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/.
What is the plural of stipulation?
The plural of stipulation is stipulations.

Words near stipulation in the dictionary

  1. stipulated
  2. stipulatedly
  3. stipulately
  4. stipulates
  5. stipulating
  6. stipulation
  7. stipulational
  8. stipulationally
  9. stipulations
  10. stipulative
  11. stipulative definition

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stipulation (page history and authors); stipulation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stipulation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stipulation (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stipulation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); उद्देश (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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