boilerplate
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
Standardised clauses inserted routinely near the end of most contracts.
Do not treat the boilerplate as filler: the governing-law clause decides where you will litigate.
Business noun
Standard contract language reused with little change from deal to deal.
Most of the back half is boilerplate, but read the indemnity clause line by line.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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