brain drain
noun [S]Definition
› the situation in which large numbers of educated and very skilled people leave their own country to live and work in another one where pay and conditions are better: Britain has suffered a huge brain drain in recent years.People who live or settle somewhere
(Definition of brain drain noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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