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pla·gia·rism
 plagiarism
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- pronunciation:
- pleI
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
the act of wrongfully taking another's words, ideas, or the like and representing them as one's own.
The professor failed the student for plagiarism after she recognized the well-known passage that the student claimed to have written himself.- synonyms:
- stealing
- similar words:
- appropriation, cheating, expropriation, forgery, imitation, piracy, theft
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| definition 2: |
that which has been plagiarized.
This essay is a plagiarism.- similar words:
- copy, counterfeit, forgery, imitation, ripoff
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| related words: |
appropriation |
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| derivations: |
plagiaristic (adj.), plagiarist (n.) |
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