stipulation
/ˌstɪp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ noun C2- The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
- Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement. · The stipulations of the contract won't allow you to do that.· If I lend you my car, my only stipulation is that you fill up the gas tank before returning it.
- The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
- A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.
Plural stipulations
From the library
“Anne Shirley,” faltered the shrinking child, not daring to make any stipulations regarding the spelling thereof, “and I’m eleven years old.”
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