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Plagiarism: The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.
Origin: Early 17th century: from Latin plagiarius 'kidnapper' (from plagium 'a kidnapping', from Greek plagion) + -ism.
"Plagiarism." Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford UP, n.d. Web. 21 Aug. 2015.
Plagiarism is one form of academic cheating which occurs when someone reproduces another person's words, ideas or findings and presents them as their own without proper acknowledgement.
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