"plagiarize" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹaɪz/, /ˈpleɪd͡ʒi.əɹaɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-plagiarize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: plagiarizes [present, singular, third-person], plagiarizing [participle, present], plagiarized [participle, past], plagiarized [past]
Etymology: From plagiary + -ize, ultimately from Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”). Etymology templates: {{af|en|plagiary|-ize}} plagiary + -ize, {{der|en|la|plagiare||to kidnap, to abduct}} Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} plagiarize (third-person singular simple present plagiarizes, present participle plagiarizing, simple past and past participle plagiarized)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) 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. Wikipedia link: plagiarism Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Copyright Synonyms: plagiarise Related terms: plagiarism Translations (use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech): اِنْتَحَلَ (intaḥala) (Arabic), плагиатствам (plagiatstvam) (Bulgarian), plagiar (Catalan), 剽竊 (Chinese Mandarin), 剽窃 (piāoqiè) (Chinese Mandarin), 抄襲 (Chinese Mandarin), 抄袭 (chāoxí) (Chinese Mandarin), plagiati (Esperanto), plagioida (Finnish), plagier (French), plaxiar (Galician), plagiieren (German), geistigen Diebstahl begehen (German), abkupfern [colloquial] (German), guttenbergen [humorous, neologism] (German), λογοκλοπώ (logoklopó) (Greek), સાહિત્યચોરવું (sāhityacorvũ) (Gujarati), bradaíl a dhéanamh (Irish), plagiare (Italian), whānako kōrero (Maori), plagiatować (Polish), zrzynać [colloquial] (Polish), plagiar (Portuguese), plagia (Romanian), занима́ться плагиа́том (zanimátʹsja plagiátom) [imperfective] (Russian), спи́сывать (spísyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), списа́ть (spisátʹ) (note: of students) [perfective] (Russian), plagiar (Spanish), fusilar [colloquial] (Spanish), plagiera (Swedish), llên-ladrata (Welsh)

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        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "спи́сывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "of students",
      "roman": "spisátʹ",
      "sense": "use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "списа́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech",
      "word": "plagiar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "fusilar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech",
      "word": "plagiera"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech",
      "word": "llên-ladrata"
    }
  ],
  "word": "plagiarize"
}

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