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US
/ˈbɔɪɫɝˌpɫeɪt/
]
[ UK /bˈɔɪləplˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /bˈɔɪləplˌeɪt/ ]
NOUN
- thick plate iron used in the production of boilers
- standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories
How To Use boilerplate In A Sentence
- Otherwise, you will much more readily find your way to boilerplate and cliche.
- The pictures soon came to symbolize the dispossessed of America during the Depression; to the politically minded, they exposed the truth behind the patriotic boilerplate.
- Unfortunately, the disclosures are hard to read due to legalese and boilerplate language.
- But all of us have been subjected, as reporters, to barrages of boilerplate coming from a president or a Senator or an official and so forth.
- One of the open secrets of contract law is the fact that the contracting parties are not interested in reading the fine print-the "boilerplate" - that fills purchase orders, acknowledgments and other documents that are supposed to be the official record of the contract. Purchasing - Top Stories
- Hacking out that kind of boilerplate is a long way from almost toppling governments, but it beats driving buses, I guess.
- In such a way, we could add global formatting to our site without having to copy boilerplate text to the top of each file.
- This language is industry standard boilerplate for enterprise licenses, but it should not have been included in the individual product licenses.
- I would guess that there actually is float in the present setup, however, because I'd bet that the payment contracts for e-merchandise have inherited payment terms boilerplated from contracts written for physical merchandise. Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
- Now, those words are not, in our respectful submission, mere boilerplate.