brain drain
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Spokesmen for the Royal Society of London first coined this expression to describe the outflow of scientists and technologists to the United States and Canada in the early 1950s.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: brānʹ-drān
Noun
[edit]brain drain (plural brain drains)
- The migration of educated or talented people from less economically advanced areas to more economically advanced areas, especially to large cities or richer countries.
- Antonym: brain gain
- 2023 October 4, Philip Haigh, “HS2's rising costs: government only has itself to blame”, in RAIL, number 993, page 53:
- Former HS2 Ltd chairman Sir David Higgins provided a timely reminder of why Britain needs HS2 in a letter to The Times on September 25, in which he asked: "Why are so few FTSE 100 companies based outside the South East? Why is there such a brain drain of graduates from the North? Why do northern cities underperform compared with their European counterparts?
- (medicine, informal) A Jackson-Pratt drain.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]emigration of educated people
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Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English brain drain.
Noun
[edit]brain drain n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit] declension of brain drain (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) brain drain | brain drainul |
genitive/dative | (unui) brain drain | brain drainului |
vocative | brain drainule |
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