Definition of Big Pharma
: large pharmaceutical companies considered especially as a politically influential group
- The Medicare prescription drug benefit enacted in 2003, and scheduled to go into effect in 2006, promises a windfall for big pharma since it forbids the government from negotiating prices.
- —Marcia Angell, New York Review of Books, 15 July 2004
- It's no secret that Big Pharma spends megabucks marketing to physicians.
- —Anne Underwood, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2007
