"big pharma" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1994 September 26, “Biotech”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 2013-10-10:",
          "text": "\"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.",
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          "ref": "2006 June 19, Daniel Williams, “Drugs Before Diagnosis?”, in Time:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2012, James Le Fanu, “Bitter Pills to Swallow”, in Literary Review, number 399:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(business, derogatory) Large, prosperous pharmaceutical firms collectively, understood as a business group having significant economic, political, or social influence."
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