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brain drain

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brain drain noun
brain drain
noun
Learner's definition of BRAIN DRAIN
[singular]
: a situation in which many educated or professional people leave a particular place or profession and move to another one that gives them better pay or living conditions人才流失；人才外流

brain drain

noun

: the departure of educated or professional people from one country, economic sector, or field for another usually for better pay or living conditions

Example Sentences

Nothing has been done to stop the brain drain as more and more doctors move away from the area.
Recent Examples on the Web The emigrants tend to be drawn from academic, tech and other knowledge fields, meaning the ongoing exodus is a significant brain drain. Loren Thompson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022 Putting all this together is a brain drain of its own. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022 Once his Cabinet is in place, the biggest task will be fixing the Trump-era brain drain at federal agencies. Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2021 Russia’s current, large-scale brain drain of young, skilled and educated citizens, could decimate sectors from journalism, to academia, and technology, experts say. Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2022 To develop such systems, Bayraktar will need to retain programming talent, but Erdoğan’s regime is struggling against brain drain. The New Yorker, 9 May 2022 The brain drain is likely to continue, with current employees worried about Twitter rescinding job offers to applicants and the impact that’s likely to have on who applies in the future. Wired, 12 July 2022 Russian state oil giant Rosneft Oil Co. is losing several senior executives and board members, a brain drain that stands to weaken a prime driver of the country’s economy while Moscow wages war on Ukraine. James Freeman, WSJ, 20 May 2022 Reynolds, a research analyst for land warfare at RUSI, said Russia’s technical demise in recent decades, partly sparked by a large post-Soviet brain drain, has forced it to use Western chips. Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 15 June 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1960, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of brain drain was in 1960

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