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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