plagiarize
verb/ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹaɪz/ · /ˈpleɪd͡ʒi.əɹaɪz/
Etymology From plagiary + -ize, ultimately from Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”).
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Ambitransitive To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.
- She was caught trying to plagiarize an article for her thesis.
- It’s unethical to plagiarize someone else’s work for personal gain.
1 more example
- Students should learn to write in their own words and avoid plagiarizing.
- Derived terms
- plagiarizable, plagiarization, plagiarizer
- Related terms
- plagiarism