boilerplate
adjective
1. Describing text of a standard or routine nature.
- The contract contained all the usual boilerplate clauses.
2. Used to describe a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures.
- A boilerplate spacecraft was used to test the rocket
noun
1. standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories
Definition categories: communication, expression, formulation
2. thick plate iron used in the production of boilers
Definition categories: man–made
Sentences with boilerplate as a noun:
- They put that boilerplate on all the warning labels.