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What does plagiarism mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word plagiarism? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) Copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission; plagiarizing.
  2. (uncountable) Text or other work resulting from this act.
  3. (countable) The instance of plagiarism.
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Harry's first real whiff of scandal came from an author named N.K. Brown, in the guise of a plagiarism suit.
The person conducting the review was told not to enquire into the question of whether plagiarism had even taken place!
He covers himself against the charge of plagiarism by making sure he acknowledges the sources of his quotes.
In between the sorts who commit the 'benign' and 'malign' forms of plagiarism are those who do it somewhat by accident or out of sloppiness.
These snatches are mere hints not out and out plagiarism, and most people would, perhaps, not notice them.
The interesting thing for us was the amount of plagiarism between the news sites, there were several errors that got propagated by cut and paste.

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