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Paper mill
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A factory devoted to making paper from wood pulp and other ingredients.
- 2 a mill where paper is manufactured wordnet
- 3 An organization that unethically sells pre-written papers to students.
"Similarly, buying papers from paper mills, or paying for someone else to write a paper, is obviously dishonest and is a clear example of plagiarizing."
- 4 An organization that produces large volumes of poor-quality or forged research papers.
"Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are complicating publishers’ efforts to tackle the growing problem of paper mills — companies that produce fake scientific papers to order."
Etymology
paper + mill
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