stipulation

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Finally the stipulation was accepted by the baron, with what result the reader need hardly be told.

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  1. noun The act of stipulating.
  2. noun Something stipulated, especially a term or condition in an agreement.

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  • But another stipulation has been added to it in the form of an amendment. —  The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
  • One stipulation -- While it should be a guide of communications, it shouldn't become a ball-and-chain. —  Wired Top Stories
  • To add more entertainment value for the audience, a stipulation was added ... this was to use no hands.
  • The one stipulation, according to the veteran journalist, was that Lowrance would run an open and honest operation.
  • On the parties 'stipulation, the district court dismissed all claims and counterclaims with respect to two of the patents. —  Promote the Progress - Patent case bibliographic summaries
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from French stipulation = Spanish estipulacion = Portuguese estipulação = Italian stipulazione, from Latin stipulatio(n-), a promise, bargain, covenant, from stipulari, demand a formal promise, bargain, covenant, stipulate: see stipulate.
  2. from Latin stipula, a stalk: see stipule.
 

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