boilerplate
nounUK /ˈbɔɪləpleɪt/
US /ˈbɔɪlərpleɪt/
Standard words that are used again and again in many places.
The contract was full of legal boilerplate that nobody bothered to read.
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2. Steel plates used to make the shells of steam boilers.
The factory rolled boilerplate for steam engines.
3. Ready-made text that news outlets or companies reuse without changes.
The press release was pure boilerplate from the marketing team.
4. In programming, repeated code that appears in many files.
The developer removed the boilerplate and wrote a reusable function.