Meaning of Placeholder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later.
2. A non-editable caption initially displayed in a blank text box to indicate its function.

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Examples

“This data is a placeholder, so you'll want⟳ to include⟳ the real numbers as soon as you have⟳ them.”

“As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like⟳ um, uh and er.”

“"I'm on vacation," [Bruce] Willis grumbles several times throughout A Good Day To Die⟳ Hard, in what counts as the film's sole running joke, a lame placeholder until he arrives at the big "yippee-ki-yay" punchline.”

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