MEANING
To specify a condition or requirement explicitly.
Use it for
contractual requirements; analytical assumptions; operational rulesMake a requirement or agreed premise unambiguous.
Words that belong together
- stipulate that
- stipulate a condition
- stipulate in the agreement
On the page
The agreement stipulates that inspections must occur without prior notice.
For this comparison, we stipulate that household size remains constant.
The scholarship rules stipulate a minimum attendance rate.
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Word forms
- Base
- stipulate / stipulates
- Past tense
- stipulated
- Past participle
- stipulated
- Present participle
- stipulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- stipulate / stipulates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are stipulating
- Present perfect
- have/has stipulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been stipulating
- Past
- stipulated
- Past continuous
- was/were stipulating
- Past perfect
- had stipulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been stipulating
- Future
- will stipulate / stipulates
- Future continuous
- will be stipulating
- Future perfect
- will have stipulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been stipulating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Formal; often contracts, procedures, or definitions. A stipulated condition may be agreed for discussion rather than asserted as a real-world fact. Verb inflections [base, third-person singular, past, past participle, -ing]: stipulate, stipulates, stipulated, stipulated, stipulating. Derived family (not inflections): stipulation.
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