Pronunciation: /ˈbɔɪləpleɪt/
noun
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1 [mass noun] rolled steel plates for making boilers.
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2 (boilerplates) Climbing smooth, overlapping, and undercut slabs of rock: the ice-worn boilerplates
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3 [mass noun] North American clichéd or predictable ideas or writing: they exposed the truth behind the patriotic boilerplate
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standardized pieces of text for use as clauses in contracts or as part of a computer program: some sections have been written as boilerplate for use in all proposals