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   place·hold·er

   /ˈplāsˌ(h)ōldər/

   noun

   • 1. a significant zero in the decimal representation of a number.
   • ▪ a symbol or piece of text used in a mathematical expression or in an instruction in a computer program to denote a missing quantity or operator.
   • 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.

   Scrabble Points: 19

   • P

     3

   • L

     1

   • A

     1

   • C

     3

   • E

     1

   • H

     4

   • O

     1

   • L

     1

   • D

     2

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

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