Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Steel in the form of flat plates used in making steam boilers.
- noun Journalistic material, such as syndicated features, made available by agencies in a form that is already typeset, originally in plate form, for easy incorporation into publications such as newspapers.
- noun Hackneyed or conventional language, usually expressing a generally accepted viewpoint.
- noun Standardized or set language that is meant to be used repeatedly, often in organizational publications or legal documents.
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- adjective Describing text of a standard or
routine nature. - adjective Used to describe a non-functional
spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures. - noun A sheet of steel used in the construction of a
boiler . - noun The rating-plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the (UK) Boiler Explosions Act (1882)
- noun A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as
manufacturer , model number,serial number , andpower requirements. - noun Standard
text orprogram code used routinely and added with atext editor orword processor ; text of alegal orofficial nature added to documents or labels.
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Examples
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Your dilation on the legal boilerplate is completely ridiculous.
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Overly broad legal boilerplate is an issue that affects so many places in our world where we deal with big companies that write contracts that govern our interaction.
Google’s Thin-Skinned Lawyers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Overly broad legal boilerplate is an issue that affects so many places in our world where we deal with big companies that write contracts that govern our interaction.
Google’s Thin-Skinned Lawyers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The language is apparently boilerplate from the publisher, and appears on (among other things) The Wind in the Willows, The Federalist Papers, Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil (good idea, there, especially as to “interpersonal relations,” though have views really changed so much since then?), and Marx & Engels’ Manifesto of the Communist Party.
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A lawyer who does that is probably one who is going to force my company’s contract into some misguided boilerplate from a giant formbook.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case for Abolishing the Bluebook 2010
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Naturally, the ad was filled with standard Jindal campaign boilerplate, which is fine, but what struck me were the three very curious photos that accompanied the text.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Analyzing Apple's Boilerplate - A boilerplate is a flexible term used to describe many different things, but Apple's boilerplate is those lines of text that you see at the bottom of each of all its press releases, and it has remained largely unchanged for the past few years.
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