big pharma
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5.1
- noun
- /bɪɡ ˈfɑrmə/
- Literature
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grandes farmacéuticas
- Many people criticize big pharma for prioritizing profits over patient care.
Why are we not resisting big pharma and big corporations?
- Why are we not resisting big pharma and big corporations?
- It's so so much because of these cocktail drugs thanks to big pharma and science.
- So it's not like Big Pharma's rushing to to study ibogaine.
- Big Tech, Big pharma, the media all benefited from it.
- They're doing it because Big Pharma will make money.
- I think it's probably very scary for big pharma right now.
- We are hearing that he wants to distance himself from big Pharma.
- And if you want to work for Big Food, if you want to work for Big Pharma, that's great.
- He says big Pharma might need some reforming and it probably does.
- I don't think that they're in bed with big pharma.
- So and so the way the FDA, I don't perceive any pressure right now from big pharma on the FDA to slow us down.
- So I think there's a really big issue with mainstream media remotely criticizing big Pharma.
Examples
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At the end, big pharma is helping these CROs to become their competitors in the not-distant future.
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I think it's probably very scary for big pharma right now.
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Big Food and Big Pharma make billions of dollars every year.
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Why do the Republicans love big pharma so much?
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They're doing it because Big Pharma will make money.
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And the answer is that Big Pharma wants to keep it that way because that stops new upstarts from bringing competition to market.
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Why are we not resisting big pharma and big corporations?
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Discover the depth of deception within big pharma marketing and politics.
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It drives me crazy because this one is, this is a problem created by Big Pharma that profits Big Pharma to this day.
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It's a bit like Big Pharma wanting one pill to take care of depression and one pill to take care of ADHD and one pill to take care of infection.
Synonyms
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5.8
Companies that make and sell medicines
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6.5
Companies that research, make, and sell medicines
How Influential
- Literature
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5.1
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The basic referent — large pharmaceutical companies or the pharmaceutical industry — is directly derivable from combining 'big' (large/powerful) with 'pharma' (pharmaceutical companies), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would grasp the core meaning. However, the phrase often carries a pejorative, political connotation (profit-driven, influential) and 'pharma' is an informal clipping; these evaluative and register nuances are not fully predictable from the parts, so the expression is not completely transparent.
Etymology
Big pharma comes from people talking about the very large drug companies as one powerful group. The word big shows size and power and pharma is short for pharmaceutical companies, so the phrase is used to say these firms are often focused on 'profit' and 'influence' rather than just helping patients.