Definition

1. Noun:
   • A factory where paper is produced: A "paper mill" is an industrial facility equipped with machinery for manufacturing paper from materials like wood pulp, rags, or other fibers.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The new paper mill on the river will create hundreds of jobs.
  • The smell from the paper mill was noticeable downwind.
  • They toured the historic paper mill to see how paper was made in the 19th century.

Advanced Usage

• "To be a paper mill" (figurative, informal): Sometimes used metaphorically to describe an institution that mass-produces low-quality academic work or degrees.
  • That online university was accused of being nothing more than a diploma paper mill.

Variants and Related Words

• Mill (n): A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain or for a specific manufacturing process.
• Pulp mill (n): A mill that produces wood pulp, which is often used as the raw material for a paper mill.
• Papermaking (n): The process or craft of making paper.

Synonyms

• Paper factory: A direct synonym for a paper manufacturing plant.
• Paper plant: Another term for a paper mill.

Related Phrases

• Paper mill worker: A person employed at a paper mill.
• Paper mill effluent: The liquid waste discharged from a paper mill.

Noun

1. a mill where paper is manufactured