plagiarizing

Definitions

The act of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

The practice of using another person's words or creative output without proper attribution or permission.

Examples

The student was expelled for plagiarizing large sections of his final research paper.

He risked his entire academic career by plagiarizing content from several online articles.

Synonyms

copying stealing pirating infringing appropriating lifting cribbing

Antonyms

originating creating authoring composing inventing innovating citing