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Meanings of placeholder in English

Portuguese
procuradora
Catalan
apoderat

A person authorized to act for another.

procuradora

Official appointed temporarily to a position, with the understanding that they will not seek office in their own right.

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Usage of placeholder in English
1
That name meant nothing to me; it was a placeholder, like zero.
Seraphina
2
In Marse's mind, I might have been a placeholder in Dennis's life.
Stiltsville: a novel
3
The figure is a placeholder used to calculate registration fees and may change.
The Irish Times
4
As a placeholder for an alien parochial, it's a far more convincing scenario.
What does a martian look like?
5
I lifted the end of the narrow red satin placeholder.
Speaking in Bones
6
The hypothetical element "nebulium" was proposed as a placeholder for our ignorance.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
7
It's a placeholder for a puzzle the mind can't solve.
Wired
8
The answer to your question is this-havinga placeholder means I have something you want.
The unincorporated man
9
An interim placeholder rule set to expire on Sept. 30 will be extended until then.
Reuters
10
The maximum offer price is a placeholder amount included in the filing to securities regulators.
Reuters
11
For even more smarts, there's a new attribute: placeholder.
Reuters
12
That assumption was baseless; the "lie-la-lie" was simply a placeholder lyric that stuck.
The Guardian
13
The trailer for the latest episode is the placeholder until the new episode is out.
The South African
14
It could serve as a placeholder in a relationship.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
15
The student retorted, telling McCaw, who is Black, that she was an affirmative action placeholder.
Ebony
16
In that sense Cook is simply a placeholder.
Reuters
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Translations for placeholder
Catalan
apoderat
Placeholder through the time
Placeholder across language varieties
United States of America
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