Meaning | Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
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Model | They plagiarise the newspapers |
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Synonyms | plagiarize, lift |
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Category | crime, criminal offense, criminal offence, law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law |
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Narrower | crib | Take unauthorized (intellectual material) |
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Broader | steal, rip off, rip | Take without the owner's consent |
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Spanish | plagiar |
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Catalan | plagiar |
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Nouns | plagiarism, plagiarisation | the act of plagiarizing |
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plagiarism | a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work |
plagiarist, plagiariser | someone who uses another person's words / words or ideas as if they were his own |