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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stipulation \Stip'u*la"tion\, noun [L. stipulatio: cf. F. stipulation.]
1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
2. That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.
3. (Law) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. --Bouvier. Wharton.
Syn: Agreement; contract; engagement. See {Covenant}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stipulation \Stip'u*la"tion\, noun [See {Stipule}.] (Bot.) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stipulation
noun
1: (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record; "a stipulation of fact was made in order to avoid delay" [syn: {judicial admission}]
2: an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else [syn: {condition}, {precondition}]
3: a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement [syn: {specification}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "stipulation": accord, agreement, allocation, arrangement, assignment, attribution, bargain, binding agreement, bond, boundary condition, cartel, catch, circumscription, clause, collective agreement, compact, condition, consortium, contract, convention, covenant, covenant of salt, deal, demand, denomination, designation, determination, dicker, donnee, employment contract, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, essential, exception, fine print, fixing, formal agreement, given, grounds, guarantee, ironclad agreement, joker, kicker, legal agreement, legal contract, limit, limiting condition, mutual agreement, obligation, pact, paction, parameter, pinning down, precision, prerequisite, promise, protocol, provision, provisions, proviso, qualification, requirement, requisite, reservation, saving clause, selection, signification, sine qua non, small print, specification, string, strings, term, terms, transaction, ultimatum, understanding, undertaking, union contract, valid contract, wage contract, warranty, whereas
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