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)

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.

   Antonym: brain gain

2. (medicine, informal) A Jackson-Pratt drain.

Derived terms

• reverse brain drain

Translations

emigration of educated people

• Arabic: هِجْرَة الأَدْمِغَة f (hijra(t) al-ʔadmiḡa), هِجْرَة العُقُول f (hijra(t) al-ʕuqūl)
• Armenian: ուղեղների արտահոսք (hy) (uġeġneri artahoskʻ)
• 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 f, (Quebec) exode des cerveaux m
• German: Braindrain (de) m, Gehirn-Abfluss m, Talentschwund m
• Hungarian: agyelszívás
• 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)
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• Kannada: ಪ್ರತಿಭಾ ಪಲಾಯನ (kn) (pratibhā palāyana)
• Korean: 두뇌유출 (dunoe yuchul) (頭腦流出)
• Limburgish: briekingsdrieëg (li) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjerneflukt m

• Persian: فرار مغزها (farâr-e mağz-hâ)
• Polish: drenaż mózgów m
• Portuguese: fuga de cérebros f
• Russian: уте́чка мозго́в (ru) f (utéčka mozgóv), уте́чка умо́в f (utéčka umóv)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: fuga de cerebros f
• Swedish: kompetensflykt (sv) c
• Thai: สมองไหล (th) (sà-mɔ̌ɔng-lǎi)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: chảy máu chất xám