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Establishing a term’s meaning by a stated convention rather than claiming to report all existing usage.
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- stipulative definition
- stipulative meaning
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The essay used a stipulative definition of community.
Her stipulative meaning applied only within the model.
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Primary category: academic. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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