brain drain

English

Etymology

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

enPR: brānʹ-drān

Noun

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
(medicine, informal) A Jackson-Pratt drain.

Derived terms

reverse brain drain

Translations

emigration of educated people

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: هِجْرَة الأَدْمِغَة‎ f (hijra(t) al-ʾadmiḡa), هِجْرَة العُقُول‎ f (hijra(t) al-ʿuqūl)
Armenian: ուղեղների արտահոսք (hy) (ułełneri artahoskʿ)
Belarusian: уцечка мазгоў f (ucječka mazhóŭ), адток мазгоў m (adtók mazhóŭ), уцёкі мазгоў pl (ucjóki mazhóŭ), выцек мазгоў m (vycjek mazhóŭ)
Catalan: fuga de cervells f, fugida de cervells f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 人才外流 (zh) (réncái wàiliú), 人才流失 (zh) (réncái liúshī)
Czech: odliv mozků m
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: braindrain (nl) m, hersenvlucht (nl) m or f, kennisvlucht m or f
Esperanto: cerbofuĝo
Estonian: ajude äravool
Finnish: aivovuoto (fi), aivovienti
French: fuite des cerveaux (fr) f, (Quebec) exode des cerveaux m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Braindrain (de) m, Gehirn-Abfluss m, Talentschwund m
Hebrew: בְּרִיחַת מוֹחוֹת‎ (he) f (briẖát moẖót)
Hungarian: agyelszívás (hu)
Italian: fuga dei cervelli f, fuga di cervelli f
Japanese: 頭脳流出 (ずのうりゅうしゅつ, zunō ryūshutsu)
Kannada: ಪ್ರತಿಭಾ ಪಲಾಯನ (kn) (pratibhā palāyana)
Korean: 두뇌유출(頭腦流出) (dunoeyuchul)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Limburgish: briekingsdrieëg m
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hjerneflukt (no) m
Persian: فرار مغزها‎ (farâr-e mağz-hâ)
Polish: drenaż mózgów (pl) m
Portuguese: fuga de cérebros f
Romanian: brain drain n
Russian: уте́чка мозго́в (ru) f (utéčka mozgóv), уте́чка умо́в f (utéčka umóv)
Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: fuga de cerebros f
Swedish: kompetensflykt (sv) c, kunskapsflykt (sv) c, hjärnflykt c, forskarflykt (sv) c
Thai: สมองไหล (th) (sà-mɔ̌ɔng-lǎi)
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: ві́дті́к мі́зків m (vídtík mízkiv)
Vietnamese: chảy máu chất xám

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English brain drain.

Noun

brain drain n (uncountable)

brain drain

Declension

declension of brain drain (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) brain drain	brain drainul
genitive/dative	(unui) brain drain	brain drainului
vocative	brain drainule