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    place·hold·er
    /ˈplāsˌ(h)ōldər/

    noun

    • 1. a significant zero in the decimal representation of a number.
    • 2. an element of a sentence that is required by syntactic constraints but carries little or no semantic information, for example the word it as a subject in it is a pity that she left, where the true subject is that she left.

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