boilerplate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++boil·er·plate /ˈbɔɪləpleɪt $ -ər-/ noun [countable, uncountable] American English a standard piece of writing or a design for something that can be easily used each time you need it, for example in business or legal documents 文本范例，标准化文本 → template a boilerplate for a fax message 传真件的标准化文本 lawyers selling boilerplate wills 兜售格式化遗嘱的律师
Examples from the Corpus
boilerplate• A boilerplate is a sentence, paragraph, or entire section of text that is used in many different documents.• But boilerplate actually refers to any sequence of keystrokes that is repeated frequently.• Even the best word processor may forget what text is stored in each boilerplate macro.• Precedent 3 is intentionally a minimalist document, which contains little boilerplate, and little by way of exclusion clauses.• Other than the quaint little town waiting to get buried, what boilerplate ingredients do we have?From Longman Business Dictionaryboilerplateboil‧er‧plate /ˈbɔɪləˌpleɪt-lər-/ noun [countable] LAW an agreement, contract etc with standard wordingAnother piece of boilerplate that it is probably useful to include is one relating to confidentiality.boilerplate contract terms that can be transferred from scheme to scheme to cut costsboil·er·plate nounChineseSyllable
piece of Corpus a design or Business standard a writing
boilerplate
boil‧er‧plate /ˈbɔɪləpleɪt $ -ər-/
noun [uncountable and countable] American English
a standard piece of writing or a design for something that can be easily used each time you need it, for example in business or legal documents ⇨ template:
a boilerplate for a fax message
lawyers selling boilerplate wills
boil‧er‧plate /ˈbɔɪləpleɪt $ -ər-/
noun [uncountable and countable] American Englisha standard piece of writing or a design for something that can be easily used each time you need it, for example in business or legal documents ⇨ template: