brain drain

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   depletion or loss of intellectual and technical personnel

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Questions about brain drain

What does brain drain mean?

brain drain means "depletion or loss of intellectual and technical personnel".

Is brain drain a common word?

brain drain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.