stipulate

stipulate is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.
2. intransitive verb. To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France.
3. verb. make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force
4. 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"

   Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify

5. verb. give a guarantee or promise of

   "They stipulated to release all the prisoners"

Synonyms

condition, qualify, specify

Common word forms

stipulated, stipulates, stipulating

Words from these letters

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