boilerplate

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boil·er·plate /ˈbɔɪləpleɪt $ -ər-/ noun [countableC, uncountableU] American EnglishAmE

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

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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 Dictionary

boilerplateboil·er·plate /ˈbɔɪləˌpleɪt-lər-/ noun [countableC]

LAW an agreement, contract etc with standard wording

Another 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 costs

boil·er·plate noun

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