Associations to the word «Stipulate»

Wiktionary

STIPULATE, verb. To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
STIPULATE, verb. To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
STIPULATE, verb. To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
STIPULATE, adjective. (botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.

Dictionary definition

STIPULATE, verb. Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments".
STIPULATE, verb. Give a guarantee or promise of; "They stipulated to release all the prisoners".
STIPULATE, verb. Make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force.

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn