boilerplate

noun

• 1 [mass noun] rolled steel plates for making boilers.

• 2 (boilerplates) Climbing smooth, overlapping, and undercut slabs of rock: the ice-worn boilerplates

• 3 [mass noun] North American clichéd or predictable ideas or writing:they exposed the truth behind the patriotic boilerplate
• 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