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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

抄袭

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chāoxí

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Plagiarism/ˈpleɪ.dʒəˌrɪz.əm/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"学校对考试作弊和抄袭采取零容忍态度。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

    "The university expelled the student for academic dishonesty involving widespread plagiarism in his thesis."
  2. 2

    Something copied and passed off as one's own; an act of appropriating text or art.

    "The committee concluded that the newly published novel was a blatant plagiarism of a lesser-known 19th-century work."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'plagiarius' meaning kidnapper or literary thief, stemming from 'plagium' (kidnapping). The term entered the English language in the early 17th century, shifting from physical abduction of people to the metaphorical theft of intellectual property and literary works.

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