What does plagiarism mean?
nounThe act of passing off someone else's words, ideas, or work as one's own; the use of someone else's work without proper acknowledgment or credit.
Example
"The student was accused of plagiarism after submitting a paper that contained large sections of text from the internet without proper citation."
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