BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Boilerplate
- a standard version of a contract that can be used interchangeably from contract to contract
Wiktionary Definition for: Boilerplate
- A standard text used routinely, especially text of a legal or official nature.
- Ex: ''They put that '''boilerplate''' on all the warning labels.''
- Describing text of a standard or routine nature.
- Ex: ''The contract contained all the usual '''boilerplate''' clauses.''
Additional Resources
- Boilerplate and economic power in auto manufacturing contracts.(Boilerplate: Foundations of Market Contracts Symposium)
- INTRODUCTION I. THE CONTRACTS II. DRAFTING OF BOILERPLATE III. ECONOMIC POWER A. Lower-Tier Contracts B. Sellers' Power Due to Switching Costs C. Bankruptcy IV....
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Critics: Heartland overheats boilerplate.
- Says its other funds may be held liable Beset with legal woes, Heartland Advisors is going overboard in an attempt to cover its assets. A Heartland prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March...
- Research articles 2001-05-07
- Ortec International Corrects Subhead and Boilerplate
- Business Editors CORRECTION...by Ortec International --BUSINESS WIRE In BW 2282, (NY-ORTEC-INTERNATIONAL), Ortec's Tissue Engineered Product to be Marketed Under Trade Name of OrCel, the subhead should read xxx Burn Victims sted xxx Burn Patients. Also, in the boilerplate, 10th-11th line, the sentence "Ortec submitted the PMA...
- Research articles 2001-07-16
- World's Best Hoax Web Sites
- It's no secret that bad information abounds on the web.  The most dangerous information, of course, is the kind that's posted with a hidden agenda, such as paid content masquerading as real content. The problem, of course, is that the "low barrier to entry" for providing information...
- Blog posts 2008-10-25
- Say What?
- Formal legal contracts are often filled with boilerplate-endless paragraphs with indecipherable legalese that protects one side or the other against different risks. Lawyers often say, "The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away." Because boilerplate can have startling effects on your deal, it pays to have your lawyer...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- The Essential Sales Proposal Checklist
- The Essential Sales Proposal ChecklistWho's getting the proposal?Geoffrey,I'd add, "What group (end-user group, influencer group, purchasing) are you submitting this proposal to?" If it's purchasing and you barely know the first two groups, then don't even bother. Maybe...lowball your offer to kill your competitor's margin at this account but...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- Neuberger fund embraces commercial Reits. (Commentary).
- Following a typical boilerplate allocation strategy, it always makes sense to have at least 10% of just about any portfolio invested in real estate. And it is times like these, with the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index down more than...
- Research articles 2002-09-23
- Why middleware never happened. (Always On).(OpenTV and Liberate Technologies Inc. continue to struggle)(Column)
- In the annals of arrogance -- or just corporate sloppiness -- the incongruous boilerplate jumped out from the bottom of an OpenTV Corp. announcement last month. The standardized wording proclaimed that OpenTV remains "one of the world's leadin In the annals of arrogance --...
- Research articles 2003-03-31
- Top AP Business/Tech Stories for August 4th (in 4 Words or Less)
- Here at Bnet Media yesterday, Cathy Taylor posted a "Top Ten AP News Stories" piece to illustrate just how absurd the wire service's new policy limiting free use of its content to four words at a time is in reality. She got a boilerplate response from the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Where does embarrassing product hype come from?
- It's well-understood how leery journalists are of hyperbole in new product publicity. So it's puzzling why many vendors continue to embarrass themselves via breathless product press releases where every other word ends in "-est" ... and the word "visionary" somehow makes it into the headline, the sub-head, the executive's...
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Setting Up a Limited Liability Company
- A limited liability company LLC affords its members limited liability, tax benefits similar to those of partnerships, and better access to financing. However, LLCs also have greater administrative burdens and must disclose more details about the business's finances. This article looks at the advantages and disadvantages of LLCs and describes...
- Articles 2007-10-22
- Five Big Challenges for CEO Compensation Committees
- As thousands of public companies contemplate the 2008 proxy season, which will once again center around the issue of CEO compensation, here's what smart comp committees ought to be thinking about: Get the math right. How can you get the resources and information to really get a...
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Expert Details 10 Steps To Manage Political Risk In Export "Hot Spots"
- With more U.S. companies exporting to potentially volatile overseas markets every year, the need for export pros to learn the nuances of international political risk management has never been greater. This means determining three things: (1) what the exposures are; (2) what the risks are; and (3) how to access...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- How to Avoid Wasting Time on Unnecessary Proposals
- The article asserts that many people have a sales process that often requires a formal proposal in order for a prospect to become a customer. Even with boilerplate templates on word processing and contact management computer programs, complex proposals can take hours--maybe even days in some cases--to prepare. If the...
- White papers 2003-09-18
- Turbo-Charge Your Contracts
- Law students may spend an entire year studying them, but contracts are actually pretty simple legal documents that can be broken down into two basic parts. The first part of any contract contains the deal - in other words, the specific terms pertaining to the business aspects of the transaction,...
- White papers 2004-12-13
- The Essential Sales Proposal Checklist
- Working on a sales proposal? Here's a quick way to assess whether you've got a chance of actually winning the business, based upon a conversation I had a couple of years ago with sales proposal guru Tom Sant. Examine the current...
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Study: Many Directors Think CEOs Are Overpaid. Will They Fix It?
- CEO pay is "too high in most cases," say about one in three directors of U.S.-based public companies in a just-released survey by Heidrick & Struggles International and the Center for Effective Organizations CEO at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The survey also found...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- World's Worst Sales Letter?
- I just received a letter that is one of the worst examples of direct mail marketing I've ever seen from a major corporation. It's a real estate pitch, but the style and content is representative of lousy marketing everywhere. Here is the turkey,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Slow-starting E-Proxies Help Governance, Ecology
- Voting via electronic proxies could be be a way to both encourage shareholder democracy and save the environment. The process seems to be off to a slow start, however. This is the first proxy season since the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission put rules into effect last...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- FOMC Statements: Let's Ban the Boilerplate
- Paul Kedrosky submits: These FOMC statements should be banned. They are a tired exercise in reader-hostile word-smithing, a conscious attempt to hide meaning and abuse language. Check the following for the MS Word track changes on today's statement. Then try to explain how the words are anything...
- External links 2008-08-05
