brain drain

Etymology
Spokesmen for the first coined this expression to describe the outflow of scientists and technologists to the United States and Canada in the early 1950s.

Noun

 * 1) The migration of educated or talented people from less economically advanced areas to more economically advanced areas, especially to large cities or richer countries.
 * 2)  A Jackson-Pratt drain.
 * 1)  A Jackson-Pratt drain.
 * 1)  A Jackson-Pratt drain.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: breindrein
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: هِجْرَة الأَدْمِغَة, هِجْرَة العُقُول
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: уцечка мазгоў, адток мазгоў, уцёкі мазгоў, выцек мазгоў
 * Catalan: fuga de cervells, fugida de cervells
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: odliv mozků
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , kennisvlucht
 * Esperanto: cerbofuĝo
 * Estonian: ajude äravool
 * Finnish:, aivovienti
 * French:, exode des cerveaux
 * Georgian:
 * German:, Gehirn-Abfluss, Talentschwund
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: fuga dei cervelli, fuga di cervelli
 * Japanese: 頭脳流出
 * Kannada:
 * Korean: 두뇌유출(頭腦流出), 인재유출, 인적자원 유출
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: briekingsdrieëg
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian: فرار مغزها
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: fuga de cérebros
 * Romanian: brain drain
 * Russian:, уте́чка умо́в
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: fuga de cerebros
 * Swedish:, , hjärnflykt, ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ві́дті́к мі́зків
 * Vietnamese: chảy máu chất xám

Etymology
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