pla·gia·rize plagiarizes plagiarizing plagiarized in BRIT, also use plagiarise If someone plagiarizes another person's idea or work, they use it or copy it and pretend that they thought of it or created it. Moderates are plagiarizing his ideas in hopes of wooing voters The poem employs as its first lines a verse plagiarized from a billboard. to take words or ideas from another person's work and use them in your work, without stating that they are not your own
{f} copy another person's written work without giving the proper acknowledgement; copy patented or copyrighted materials without permission (also plagiarise)