paper mill
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An organization that unethically sells pre-written papers to students.
noun
An organization that produces large volumes of poor-quality or forged research papers.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."