Plagiarism meaning

plā'jə-rĭz'əm
Plagiarism is the act of copying or stealing someone else's words or ideas and passing them off as your own work.

An example of plagiarism is when you copy a paper from the Internet, put your name on it and turn it in as if you wrote it.

An example of plagiarism is when you buy a term paper or essay written by someone else and attempt to use it as your own.

An example of plagiarism is paraphrasing materials without correctly attributing the source or research text.

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The act or behavior of plagiarizing.
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Copying or stealing someone else’s words or ideas and claiming or presenting them as if they were your own. See also infringement.
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An instance of plagiarizing, especially a passage that is taken from the work of one person and reproduced in the work of another without attribution.
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(uncountable) The act of plagiarizing: the copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission.

Even if it's not illegal, plagiarism is usually frowned upon.

Copy from one, it's plagiarism. Copy from two, it's research.

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(uncountable) Text or other work resulting from this act.

The novel was awash in plagiarism, with entire passages lifted verbatim.

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The act of plagiarizing.
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An idea, plot, etc. that has been plagiarized.
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Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work. The content in this encyclopedia was placed online in 1997, and although copyright notices are prominently displayed, thousands of definitions have been, and still are, copied to other websites without permission and without adding any reference to the source, typically in quantities from a half dozen to several hundred.Viva Texas!The most interesting copyright infringement was a Texas state agency, which copied about a hundred terms to their site years ago and added just one more of their own. The term they added was "plagiarism." True story! See copyright.
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Origin of plagiarism

  • From plagiary
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From plagiary +"Ž -ism.
    From Wiktionary

Plagiarism Sentence Examples

  • The Muses carried off the second prize in 405, Aristophanes being first with the Frogs, in which he accuses Phrynichus of employing vulgar tricks to raise a laugh, of plagiarism and bad versification.

  • Can you tell me in what paper the article appeared accusing Helen of plagiarism, and giving passages from both stories?

  • Make sure to reference where you found any information to avoid plagiarism.

  • She did not know the meaning of the word "plagiarism" until quite recently, when it was explained to her.

  • In all these biographies there is internal evidence of confusion; many of the incidents related are elsewhere told of other persons, and certain of them are quite irreconcilable with his character, so far as it can be judged of from his writings and from the opinions expressed of him by his contemporaries; we may safely reject, for instance, the legends that he set fire to the library of the Temple of Health at Cnidos, in order to destroy the evidence of plagiarism, and that he refused to visit Persia at the request of Artaxerxes Longimanus, during a pestilential epidemic, on the ground that he would in so doing be assisting an enemy.

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