placeholder

See also: place holder

English

place +‎ holder.

placeholder (plural placeholders)

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.
This data is a placeholder, so you'll want to include the real numbers as soon as you have them.
- 2013 February 14, Scott Tobias, “A Good Day To Die Hard [film review]”, in The AV Club‎, archived from the original on 10 March 2016:
  "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.

that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later

Arabic: العُنْصُرُ النَّائِب‎ m (al-ʿunṣuru n-nāʾib), ^{(please verify)} حَيِّز‎ m (ḥayyiz)
Dutch: plaatshouder m, invul- (nl), vulsel (nl) n, vulling (nl) f
Finnish: paikkamerkki
French: marque substitutive (fr) f, substitut (fr) m
German: Platzhalter (de) m
Hungarian: (in general) helyettesítő, pótlék (hu), (as a term in computer science) helykitöltő, helyőrző
Italian: segnaposto (it) m, simbolo (it) m, sostituto (it) m, variabile (it) f, tal dei tali m
Macedonian: пополнувач m (popolnuvač), резервирано место n (rezervirano mesto)
Maori: puri tūranga
Norwegian: plassholder m
Portuguese: calhau (pt)
Russian: заполни́тель (ru) m (zapolnítelʹ), ры́ба (ru) f (rýba)
Spanish: marcador (es) m
Swedish: platshållare c
Welsh: dalfan