plagiarise

Claim others' work

To plagiarise is to pass off someone else's work or ideas as your own.

The term applies to copying text, stealing concepts, or failing to credit sources: The student plagiarised entire paragraphs from Wikipedia.

Plagiarism ranges from wholesale theft to careless paraphrasing without attribution.

The word is spelled plagiarize in American English.

copying

copy

Identical reproduction made

lift · appropriate · borrow · crib · steal · take · pirate · poach · purloin · paraphrase

deception

fraud

Intentional criminal trickery

fakery · deception · dishonesty · imposture · pretense · claim · unattributed · uncredited

unoriginality

derivative

Function's rate of change

imitation · rehashed · secondhand · borrowed · lifted · uncreative · uninspired · replica · knockoff · clone

ethics

misconduct

Improper professional behavior

originality · credibility · authorship · Turnitin · source · reference · bibliography · footnote

Opposites
originality and creation

plagiarisecreate

Cause to exist

originate · invent · conceive · compose · author

attribution and ethical practice

plagiarisecite

Mention as authority

attribute · acknowledge · credit · give credit · reference

Phrases
Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G