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auto-plagiarism

auto-plagiarism is the alternative form of autoplagiarism.

Meaning of autoplagiarism

Noun

autoplagiarism (uncountable)

  1. The republishing or resubmitting of one's own work as if it were original.
    • A few lines are likewise borrowed from poems which I had written on ephemeral occasions. In this auto-plagiarism, I can quote a Virgil and a Byron for authority.1818, Eaton Stannard Barrett, Woman: A Poem, page 9
    Synonyms:
    self-plagiarism

Questions about auto-plagiarism

What is auto-plagiarism the alternative form of?
Auto-plagiarism is the alternative form of autoplagiarism.

Words near auto-plagiarism in the dictionary

  1. auto-mimicry
  2. auto-off
  3. auto-Orientalism
  4. auto-oxidation
  5. auto-pen
  6. auto-plagiarism
  7. auto-recommend
  8. auto-recommended
  9. auto-recommending
  10. auto-recommends
  11. auto-redirect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: auto-plagiarism (page history and authors); autoplagiarism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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