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A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
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plagiarism
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author 's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work .From the 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from -ism + plagiary (n.) "plagiarist, literary thief" (1590s), from Latin plagiarius "kidnapper, seducer, plunderer, one who kidnaps the child or slave of another," used by Martial in the sense of "literary thief," from plagiare "to kidnap," plagium ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Claims of plagiarism are common in the movie business. ▪ His dissertation contained many plagiarisms. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Does the student follow the old adage that to read and paraphrase one book is plagiarism but ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act of plagiarize: the copying of another person's ideas, text(,) or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, ''especially'' without permission. 2 (context uncountable English) Text or other work resulting ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own [syn: plagiarization , plagiarisation , piracy ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plagiarism \Pla"gia*rism\ (pl[=a]"j[.a]*r[i^]z'm or pl[=a]"j[i^]*[.a]*r[i^]z'm; 277), n. [Cf. F. plagiarisme.] The act or practice of plagiarizing. That which is plagiarized; a work which has been plagiarized.
Usage examples of plagiarism.
Even the decision to convert one wing of Qualen House to a small Museum of Plagiarism represented more of a gesture to a wealthy donor than to knowledge and scholarship.
Museum of Plagiarism committee tomorrow morning, and it is vital that everyone attend.
A nice lunch would be welcome after the Museum of Plagiarism committee at ten and her meeting with the Spillane fan at eleven.
Up to now, the Museum of Plagiarism committee had served mostly as a rubber stamp for a vague overall plan.
Museum of Plagiarism committee proved remarkably lacking in ironclad alibis.
Museum of Plagiarism writes the committee chair a letter saying he has some items to donate that might be of interest.
He has copies of the history books that had recently come under a cloud due to their sloppy scholarship and supposedly inadvertent plagiarism of earlier sources.
To begin with, I was never overly enthusiastic about the whole Museum of Plagiarism idea.
The beginning of my downfall was that he had as little regard for the value of a Museum of Plagiarism as I did.
He called me for a meeting before the meeting of the Museum of Plagiarism committee, ostensibly to discuss in what manner my perfidy would be presented to the committee.
Should the test for plagiarism be more stringent than the one applied by the Copyright Office?
In the USA, the backlash against digital content piracy and plagiarism has reached preposterous legal, litigious and technological nadirs.
An instructor, teacher, or professor can then use the report to prove plagiarism and cheating.
And while piracy is discussed freely and fought vigorously - the discussion of plagiarism is still taboo andactively suppressed by image-conscious and endowment-weary academic institutions and media.
I know, from an experience within my own family, how much plagiarism can hurt.