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noun (n)

• (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(noun.communication)

  Example:
  A stipulation of fact was made in order to avoid delay.
  

  Synonym:
  judicial admission
  

  source: wordnet30
• an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else(noun.communication)

  Synonym:
  condition, precondition
  

  source: wordnet30
• a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  specification
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.(noun)

  source: webster1913
• The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.(noun)

  source: webster1913