brain drain
or brain-drain
a loss of trained professional personnel to another company, nation, etc., that offers greater opportunity.
Origin of brain drain
1Words Nearby brain drain
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use brain drain in a sentence
Spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid lamented the ongoing brain drain on Tuesday and said "we are not in favor of allowing Afghans to leave."
The greatest accidental experiment in the history of labor has lessons to teach us about productivity, flexibility, and even reversing the brain drain.
Reversing brain drain is an issue for a lot of places, all over the world.
Maybe the cleric can rub his own magic lamp, and ask it to explain the concept known as brain drain.
It had suffered a sizeable brain drain, since over a third of its workforce was fired by Chavez for dereliction of duty.
As a result, Russia is suffering capital flight and brain drain, and is growing weaker.
Davos World Economic Forum: George Soros Issues Euro Warning | Daniel Gross | January 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn fact, turnaround experts will tell you that the brain drain typically begins long before the Chapter 11 filing.
It should be allowing banks to operate here, thus stopping the city's brain drain to Amman and Dubai.
‘The Hand Of Providence’ And, Oh, The Occupation | Bernard Avishai | July 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTOthers despairingly regard the brain drain as a natural catastrophe.
After the Rain | Sam Vakninbrain drain – skilled people desert, en masse, the fragmented economic system and move to more sustainable ones.
After the Rain | Sam Vaknin
British Dictionary definitions for brain drain
informal the emigration of scientists, technologists, academics, etc, for better pay, equipment, or conditions
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with brain drain
The departure of educated or talented persons for better pay or jobs elsewhere, as in The repression of free speech in Germany triggered a brain drain to Britain and America. The term originated about 1960, when many British scientists and intellectuals emigrated to the United States for a better working climate.
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Browse