Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stipulation

3 senses of stipulation

Sense 1
stipulation, judicial admission -- ((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")

Sense 2
condition, precondition, stipulation -- (an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else)
       => premise, premiss, assumption -- (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")

Sense 3
stipulation, specification -- (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")