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Pharma is a short business word for the pharmaceutical industry — the companies that invent, make, and sell medicines. You hear it in money news and office talk: the pharma market, a pharma firm, Big Pharma (a pointed name for the largest companies). It is informal but standard in that world. It is not the shop where you buy pills (that is a pharmacy / chemist), and it is not one medicine. People in Taiwan business Chinese often keep the English word as-is, mixed into a sentence. It sounds cool and quick; in a careful school essay, pharmaceutical industry is clearer.
製藥業(商界口語;台灣也常直接說 pharma)
組成A clipping of pharmaceutical — the front of the long word, used as a noun for the whole industry.
同家族的字
- pharmaceuticalthe longer word this is cut from
- pharmaceuticalsthe medicines that industry makes
- pharmacyshares the pharmac- “drug” piece; means the shop or the study of preparing medicines
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pharmanoun
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businessmedicinepharmacologyThe pharmaceutical or drug-making sector.
- We're investing in pharma and biotech.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。