Meaning of big pharma | Babel Free

Definitions

Large, prosperous pharmaceutical firms collectively, understood as a business group having significant economic, political, or social influence.

derogatory, uncountable

Examples

“"Biotech's only got about $1.5 billion in partnering funds today, but big pharma is spending $25 billion in R&D" each year with marginal results, notes Burrill.”

“Critics were indignant that a potentially dangerous drug was being used on a hunch, and suspected the influence of big pharma and its drive to expand its markets.”

“The driving force, and substantial beneficiary, of this mass medicalisation is of course the pharmaceutical industry, or Big Pharma as it has pejoratively become known.”

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