big pharma
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Large, prosperous pharmaceutical firms collectively, understood as a business group having significant economic, political, or social influence.
Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""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."