Wordcyclopedia | English | stipulate by a contract

stipulate Verb

— If you stipulate something, you require it as a condition of a contract or agreement.

by Preposition

— near or next to. The mailbox is by the bus stop. — at some time before (the given time). Be back by ten o'clock! — if something is done by somebody, it is done through their action The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. — if something is created by somebody, they are the creator, author, etc. There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare. — shows how someone does something I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. — using the rules or logic of. I sorted the items by category. — with a change of. In this case, by shows how much something has changed. Our stock is up by ten percent. — shows how slowly, or how quickly, someone does something (used in the form "X by X" or "by Xs") We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. — If you multiply mathx/math by mathy/math, you multiply mathx/math × mathy/math. Five multiplied by seven is 35. — If you divide mathx/math by mathy/math, you find how many mathy/maths are in mathx/math. 35 divided by seven is five.

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a Determinative

— A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type. Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".

a Noun

— A is the first letter of the alphabet. The letter "a" comes before "b". — In some schools, an A is a very high grade. Ron got an A on his earth science test.

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contract Noun

— A contract is a legal agreement to trade goods, services and/or property. It's usually written down. If you would just sign this contract, the car will be yours. In Japan, most worker’s employment contracts last until the age of sixty. My father’s employment contract is for forty years. You must look over the contract before you sign it.

contract Verb

— If something contracts, it gets smaller. As the wood dries out, it contracts. — If you contract someone to do a job, you enter into a contract with them. We've contracted a cleaning company to take care of the office. When there's too much work, there are a number of small firms to which we will contract it out. — If you contract a disease, you become sick with it. It's hard to understand why people risk contracting sexually transmitted diseases. He contracted the flu.

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