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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STIPULATION, n. [L.]
1. The act of agreeing and covenanting; a contracting or bargaining.
2. An agreement or covenant made by one person with another for the performance or forbearance of some act; a contract or bargain; as the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.
3. In botany, the situation and structure of the stipules.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record; "a stipulation of fact was made in order to avoid delay" [syn: stipulation, judicial admission]
2: an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else [syn: condition, precondition, stipulation]
3: a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement [syn: stipulation, specification]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1552 1. an act of stipulating 2. something stipulated; especially a condition, requirement, or item specified in a legal instrument • stipulatory adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stipulation Stip`u*la"tion, n. [L. stipulatio: cf. F. stipulation.] 1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement. 2. 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. 3. (Law) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. --Bouvier. Wharton. Syn: Agreement; contract; engagement. See Covenant.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stipulation Stip`u*la"tion, n. [See Stipule.] (Bot.) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Bargain, agreement, contract, engagement, obligation, covenant, indenture, concordant, pact, convention.

Moby Thesaurus

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