Usually means: Migration of skilled individuals abroad.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. brain drain: Merriam-Webster
  2. brain drain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brain drain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brain drain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brain drain: Vocabulary.com
  6. brain-drain: Wordnik
  7. brain drain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brain drain: Wiktionary
  9. brain drain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. brain drain: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. brain-drain, brain drain: Dictionary.com
  12. Brain Drain (album), Brain Drain (comics), Brain Drain (film), Brain Drain, Brain-drain, Brain drain (disambiguation), Brain drain, The Brain Drain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. brain drain: Rhymezone
  14. brain drain: FreeDictionary.org
  15. brain drain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. brain-drain, brain drain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. brain drain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brain Drain: Investopedia
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brain drain: Netlingo

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  1. Glossary of Population Terms (No longer online)

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  1. brain drain: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (brain drain)

noun:  (idiomatic) The migration of educated or talented people from less economically advanced areas to more economically advanced areas, especially to large cities or more developed nations.
noun:  (medicine, informal) A Jackson-Pratt drain.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic, uncommon) Of a nation or society, to be deprived of educated or talented people, who in turn migrate to larger cities or more developed nations.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, uncommon) To become mentally or psychologically fatigued or exhausted.

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