Plagiarize (Verb)
Meaning
Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property.
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- It's considered a serious academic offense to plagiarize another student's essay and submit it as your own.
- To avoid plagiarism, you must provide a proper citation whenever you use content from someone else's research paper.
- If you plagiarize a writer's work, you are stealing their intellectual property.
- Some students plagiarize due to a lack of understanding of proper citation techniques.
- The professor caught the student trying to plagiarize a passage from an online article for his thesis.