plagiarism

  1. Noun.  (uncountable) The act of plagiarizing: the copying of another person's ideas, text(,) or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, ''especially'' without permission.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable) Text or other work resulting from this act.

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