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big Pharma

 
 
noun [S] informal

Definition

large and successful pharmaceutical companies considered as a business group with important economic, political, or social influence: Big Pharma is licensing more drugs from biotech companies, but such deals don't come cheap.
(Definition of big Pharma noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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