Meaning & use

Stipulated

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Specified or demanded explicitly as a condition of an agreement or contract.

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The contract stipulated that payment was due within thirty days.

Both lawyers stipulated to the facts before the trial began.

A note on using this word

The word comes from Latin stipulari, possibly linked to stipula ("straw"), from an ancient Roman custom of breaking a straw to formalize an agreement.

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