verb
- takes someone else’s work or ideas and passes them off as one’s own
Usage: British spelling
Examples
- The student plagiarises entire paragraphs from online sources.
- She plagiarises other authors’ research without giving proper credit.
- The journalist was fired because he plagiarises content from competitors.
- Anyone who plagiarises faces serious academic consequences.
- The software detects when a writer plagiarises published material.
- He consistently plagiarises ideas from his colleagues’ presentations.