Usually means: Standardized text used repeatedly unchanged.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word boilerplate:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. boilerplate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. boilerplate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boilerplate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boilerplate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boilerplate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boilerplate, boilerplate: Wordnik
  7. boilerplate: Wiktionary
  8. boilerplate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. boilerplate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. boilerplate: Dictionary.com
  11. boilerplate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Boilerplate (robot), Boilerplate (spaceflight), Boilerplate (text), Boilerplate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. boilerplate: Rhymezone
  14. boilerplate: Free Dictionary
  15. boilerplate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Boilerplate: The Word Detective
  17. boilerplate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. Boilerplate: World Wide Words

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. boilerplate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. boilerplate: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Boilerplate: bizterms.net
  8. Boilerplate: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  9. Boilerplate: Investopedia
  10. Boilerplate: Legal dictionary
  11. boilerplate: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. boilerplate: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. boilerplate: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boilerplate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. boilerplate: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
noun:  (UK) The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
noun:  A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
noun:  (journalism) Syndicated material.
noun:  Standard text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
noun:  (computing) A standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.
noun:  Formulaic or hackneyed language.
noun:  (skiing) Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous for skiing.
adjective:  Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature.
adjective:  (aeronautics) Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures.
verb:  (transitive) To store standard text so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse.

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