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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▸ 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.
Similar:
reverse brain drain,
brain gain,
outmigration,
hypermigration,
internal migration,
semigration,
transmigration,
expatriation,
interregional migration,
endomigration,
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Adjectives:
emigrational,
emigratory,
immigratory,
transmigratory,
migrative,
migrational,
immigrant,
immigrational,
migrant,
transhumant,
transmigrational
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