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Adjective: plagiarized  'pley-jee-u`rIzd
  1. Copied and passed off as your own
    "used plagiarized data in his thesis"; "a work dotted with plagiarized phrases"
    - plagiaristic, plagiarised [Brit]
Verb: plagiarize  'pley-ju`rIz
  1. Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
    "Technology can be used to cheat or plagiarize"
    - plagiarise [Brit], lift

See also: derived, plagiarism, plagiarist, plagiarization

Type of: steal

Encyclopedia: Plagiarize

Plagiarized