Verb
1. specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement;
"The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life""The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"2. give a guarantee or promise of;
"They stipulated to release all the prisoners"3. make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force