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View synonyms for brain drain

brain drain

or brain-drain

noun

  1. a loss of trained professional personnel to another company, nation, etc., that offers greater opportunity.


brain drain

noun

  1. 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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of brain drain1

First recorded in 1960–65
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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.
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Example Sentences

Spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid lamented the ongoing brain drain on Tuesday and said "we are not in favor of allowing Afghans to leave."

From Axios

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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