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Big Pharma
or big phar·ma
[ big fahr-muh ]
noun
- pharmaceutical companies considered collectively, especially with reference to their political and commercial influence:
The article attributes rising medical costs to private healthcare, Big Pharma, and insurance.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Big Pharma1
First recorded in 1990–95
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Example Sentences
Whenever soldiers come home, big pharma finds new ways to medicate them.
From The Daily Beast
But the end of Viagra as we know it signals more than just a change in the tides for Big Pharma.
From The Daily Beast
All the Bigs need their financial cut: Big Insurance and Big Pharma and even Big Hospitals and Big Doctors.
From The Daily Beast
So you have Big Pharma earning billions off pills that cause addiction, and billions more from pills to treat it.
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Rather, they revolve around money and government, and big pharma.
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