pharmaceutical company
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3.4
- noun
- /ˌfɑːrməˈsuːtɪkəl ˈkʌmpəni/
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empresa farmacéutica
- After years of research, the pharmaceutical company finally released a medication for the rare disease.
- large pharmaceutical companies
- several pharmaceutical companies
- pharmaceutical companies produce
And here's the other thing I'll say, I don't trust pharmaceutical companies and their agenda.
- And here's the other thing I'll say, I don't trust pharmaceutical companies and their agenda.
- They produce banks, governments, pharmaceutical companies, etcetera, and they control them all.
- Why do we continue to give money to all of these pharmaceutical companies when what they're doing isn't working?
- Lavender, herbal remedies, synthetic things that pharmaceutical companies are making, none of those actually heal you.
- He's actually, you know, been infected through this drug produced by pharmaceutical companies.
- There was push funding, so direct subsidies for pharmaceutical companies, but there was also what's called pull funding.
- And it makes me wonder, pharmaceutical companies, they all believe they're doing good.
- On the other hand, I've taken on the FDA for being a, you know, a revolving door for pharmaceutical companies and for GMOs.
- Well, it is true that pharmaceutical companies want to create products that people have to take for a long time.
- So to be blunt, MDMA can be turned into a a prescription drug sold by a pharmaceutical company.
- The four pharmaceutical companies tell Salk that his mix is very difficult to grow this vaccine.
- Well, Jamie joins me along with Doctor Lynn Friedland, pediatrician and vaccine research scientist at pharmaceutical company GSK, who we're partnering with today.
- And, and, and, and, you know, another reason is I, I, I lost a lot of trust in the pharmaceutical companies.
- It relies on the willingness of pharmaceutical companies to license their patents and make them available for others, for others to use.
- That's why the pharmaceutical companies right now are making billions upon billions on these fat loss injections like Ozempic because it's easy and fast.
Examples
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- Who do you work for? - A pharmaceutical company.
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We love this pharmaceutical company at work.
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Our large domestic pharmaceutical companies, at least until very recently, have been very successful.
Academic text (1993) -
At 50, she works as an interior designer, while her husband is a salesman for a pharmaceutical company.
Academic text (2001) -
Her husband was a brilliant researcher for one of France's best pharmaceutical companies.
Fiction book (1999) -
In light of an uncertain market outlook, pharmaceutical companies have taken a cautious approach to pharmacogenomics.
Academic text (2006) -
The pharmaceutical company developed a new vaccine that has shown promising results in clinical trials.
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Many pharmaceutical companies are investing heavily in research to find cures for various illnesses.
Synonyms
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2.6
A company that makes and sells medicines like vaccines and pills
19
5.8
Companies that make and sell medicines
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3.2
A company or person that makes medicines
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Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'pharmaceutical' means relating to medicinal drugs and 'company' means an organization, so together they denote an organization that produces or sells medicines. This adjective+noun pattern is a common, transparent formation in English (and parallels many other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Pharmaceutical company comes from the idea of making 'medicines': think of pharmaceutical as making cures and company as a business, so imagine a small shop that mixes herbs for healing turned into a large business that makes medicines for many people. That's why pharmaceutical company means a business that develops and sells 'medicines'.