Meaning

1 senses
  1. 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.

    plagiieren, geistigen Diebstahl begehen, abkupfern

    занима́ться плагиа́томzanimátʹsja plagiátom, спи́сыватьspísyvatʹ, списа́тьspisátʹ

    take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

Examples

10 sentences
  1. She accused me of plagiarizing my essay.

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  2. He was plagiarizing those poems verse by verse.

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  3. Creative people create, the non-creative plagiarize, all the others - translate.

    ruТворческие люди творят, нетворческие - плагиатят, все остальные - переводят.

    deKreative Menschen schaffen, die unkreativen kupfern ab, alle anderen - übersetzen.

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  4. My sentences are original: this is why those who shamelessly plagiarize me denounce themselves.

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  5. Your father plagiarized you.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech:

Forms

plagiarizes, plagiarizing, plagiarized, plagiarized
Base formplagiarize · to plagiarize
3rd person singularplagiarizes
Present participleplagiarizing
Past simpleplagiarized
Past participleplagiarized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyplagiarize
he, she, itplagiarizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsplagiarized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave plagiarized
he, she, ithas plagiarized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill plagiarize

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property:plagiariselift

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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