Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To reproduce or otherwise use (the words, ideas, or other work of another) as one's own or without attribution.
  • intransitive verb To plagiarize the words, ideas, or work of (another person).
  • intransitive verb To present another's words or ideas as one's own or without attribution.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To steal or purloin from the writings or ideas of another: as, to plagiarize a passage.
  • To commit plagiarism. Also spelled plagiarise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive or intransitive To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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Examples

  • As such, it Must make reference to the culture as a whole, or to put it in another fashion, plagiarize from the culture as a whole.

    Matthew Yglesias » Intellectual Property Gone Mad 2009

  • To plagiarize aka paraphrase the honest opinion of "fundamentalist atheist" aka Atheist Supremacist Richard Dawkins

    Supporting Atheists As Anti-Oppression Work Steve Caldwell 2008

  • Obama didn\'t "plagiarize" Deval Patrick as the Clinton campaign claimed.

    Two Pieces of Nonsense Yesterday about Bill Clinton and Barack Obama 2008

  • Again, thinking of the current MP3 debates, those who "plagiarize" in this manner have no conception, or have a merely legal conception, of what plagiarism might possibly be, just as they start out with no concrete idea of the person who has created the song or even posted it.

    Site Three: Use, Pedagogy, and Addiction. 2002

  • I regret that I was not able to 'plagiarize' this effect, but I felt that, although crabs may, and doubtless do, behave thus in real life, in romance they 'will not do so.'

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • The original post about this new service generated a lively debate about whether it's ethical to "plagiarize" your own essays, or recycle them for multiple applications.

    IPBiz 2010

  • I believe that those who do "plagiarize" without adding any value put their own reputations at great risk -- but it's hardly "stealing" or damaging in most cases.

    Techdirt 2009

  • But if he were asked to define the term "plagiarize", as in a trivia game .... naaa!

    unknown title 2009

  • "plagiarize" might be a word that is overly loaded in your mind, but if you check the dictionary, you'll see that it fits rather well here …

    Booksquare 2009

  • Is it just me, or did Matt just plagiarize wholesale from Delong?

    Matthew Yglesias » Right-Wing Establishment Embraces Discredited 1930s-Vintage Economic Doctrines 2009

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