paper mill noun3 •A factory devoted to making paper from wood pulp and other ingredients. •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. — 2010 •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. — 2023 formspaper mills