drugmaker
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drug·mak·er
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Definition of drugmaker
: a company that manufactures pharmaceuticals
Examples of drugmaker in a Sentence
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Government data unveiled last week showed Purdue and other drugmakers flooded the U.S. with more than 76 billion opioid pills between 2006 and 2012. — NBC News, "Revamped OxyContin was supposed to reduce abuse, but has it?," 22 July 2019 Government data unveiled last week showed Purdue and other drugmakers flooded the U.S. with more than 76 billion opioid pills between 2006 and 2012. — Matthew Perrone, Fortune, "OxyContin Was Reformulated to Reduce Abuse, but Purdue Pharma Won’t Share Data of the Results," 22 July 2019 Because price negotiations among insurers, drugmakers and middlemen are often highly competitive and secretive, the tools often don't have data for everyone. — Phil Galewitz, chicagotribune.com, "Tool can help patients get cheaper prescriptions before leaving the doctor’s office," 19 July 2019 International Pricing Options A pilot program announced last year has struck fear among drugmakers, who, like some Republicans in Congress, have described it as akin to foreign price controls. — Katie Thomas, New York Times, "Trump’s Efforts to Rein In Drug Prices Face Setbacks," 11 July 2019 Lundbeck, a Danish drugmaker, and Pfizer have settled smaller claims. — The Economist, "Why America’s biggest charities are owned by pharmaceutical companies," 15 Aug. 2019 Part of the gain could be due to the return-to-health effect, say representatives of the drugmakers, ViiV Healthcare of London and Gilead Sciences, Inc. of Foster City, California. — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, "Popular anti-HIV drugs result in ‘10 years of weight gain in 2 years’ for some women," 7 Aug. 2019 Pharmaceutical companies also fell on Thursday after the White House withdrew a plan to overhaul the rebates that drugmakers pay insurers and distributors. — Ken Sweet, BostonGlobe.com, "Stocks climb to records on hopes for lower interest rates," 12 July 2019 President Donald Trump is withdrawing a plan to ease the financial bite of costly medications for people on Medicare by letting them receive rebates that drugmakers now pay to insurers and middlemen, the White House said Thursday. — NBC News, "White House yanks drug 'rebate' plan to ease costs for some," 12 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'drugmaker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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drugmaker
noun
drug·mak·er
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Medical Definition of drugmaker
: a company that manufactures pharmaceuticals