Term:Big pharma
Related terms
- (produces) coronavirus vaccines
- anti-vaxxer (believes in the conspiracy of)
Normative
The concept is absent from the corpus.
Research
Variants and synonyms
- Big Pharma
Definition/description
Traditional large, multinational pharmaceutical companies (big pharma) and small-sized regional or national pharma companies are not included in this chapter, except insofar as how their dealings with SMEs have impacted their own pipelines.
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B008045044X00016X?via%3Dihub
Examples
Big Pharma and small biotech are increasingly outsourcing the late stage development and manufacturing of their biologics.
Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19420862.2016.1227665
But it is encouraging that at last so many different approaches are progressing to the clinic, with investment from both big pharma and biotech.
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt1207-1375
Collocations
Keyness
>1000
Note
There are 74 results in total in the concordance search for “big pharma”. In the corpus “big pharma” does not carry the “conspiratorial” meaning but rather it describes a mode of operation and size of certain pharmaceutical companies.
Press
Examples
Europe's vaccination programme has been beset with supply and take-up issues that has left leaders in Brussels thrashing out at the UK and big pharma.
Keyness
>1000
Note
The example cited is the only one occurring in the press corpus.
Comments
Description
The money big pharma has made billions and will continue to make billions with flu and covid jabs every year and with every new strain they "make up"
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Examples
Big Pharma really have our politicians where they want them don't they
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Also, we must demand that BIG pharma release the patents so poorer nations can get access to vaccination.
Source: nytimes.com
Keyness
12