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| 1. | (used
with a singular or plural verb )
a system of moral principles: the
ethics of a culture. |
| 2. | the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics. |
| 3. | moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence. |
| 4. | (usually
used with a singular verb)
that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human
conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain
actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of
such actions. |
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To plagiarize is not just copying someone else's writing or
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