Noun | 1. | stipulation - (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" concession - a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions they asked for" law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
2. | stipulation - an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else assumption, premise, premiss - a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play" boundary condition - (mathematics) a condition specified for the solution to a set of differential equations | |
3. | stipulation - a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement restriction, confinement - the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area" |