PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pharmaceutical company mean? 

• PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY (noun)
  The noun PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY has 1 sense:

1. a company that makes and sells pharmaceuticals

  Familiarity information: PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A company that makes and sells pharmaceuticals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

drug company; pharma; pharmaceutical company

Hypernyms ("pharmaceutical company" is a kind of...):

company (an institution created to conduct business)

 Context examples 

The Industrial Trial, Standard Cancer Center Information Summary for Cancer Center Support Grant Application, is a clinical study which design and implementation is controlled by the pharmaceutical company.

(Industrial Trial Standard Cancer Center Information Summary, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of manufacturing prescription medications for humans by a pharmaceutical company.

(Human Prescription Drug Manufacturing, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of manufacturing non-prescription medications for humans by a pharmaceutical company.

(Human Over-the-Counter Drug Manufacturing, NCI Thesaurus)