pharma
[fahr-muh]
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noun
a pharmaceutical company.
Also called big pharma. pharmaceutical companies, considered collectively: Pharma is expanding into China, hoping to replace local remedies with manufactured drugs.
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Origin of pharma
First recorded in 1990-95; short for pharmaceutical
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Contemporary Examples of pharma
Compared with Pharma, compounders are very lightly regulated.
Taxes on pharma and medical devices would remain, while managed-care and hospital companies would suffer big losses.
Zedlmayer called for a full "eco system": Pharma, R&D, the works.
Even if the Blunt amendment had passed, Pharma would still do well.
Pharma runs this country and we the patients are the trusting losers.
Historical Examples of pharma
The appetite-suppressing hormones had been used in the Mexican pharma industry for years.
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pharma
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