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brain drain
noun
- a loss of trained professional personnel to another company, nation, etc., that offers greater opportunity.
brain drain
noun
- informal.the emigration of scientists, technologists, academics, etc, for better pay, equipment, or conditions
Word History and Origins
Origin of brain drain1
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
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.
In 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.
Others despairingly regard the brain drain as a natural catastrophe.
Brain drain – skilled people desert, en masse, the fragmented economic system and move to more sustainable ones.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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