Term: brain drain: depletion or loss of intellectual and technical personnel
Candidate hypernym: depletion: the act of decreasing something markedly → 1
Candidate hypernym: national insurance: social insurance program in Britain; based on contributions from employers and employees; provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services → 0
Candidate hypernym: manhole: a hole (usually with a flush cover) through which a person can gain access to an underground structure → 0
Candidate hypernym: dewey decimal classification: a system used by libraries to classify nonfictional publications into subject categories; the subject is indicated by a three-digit numeral and further specification is given by numerals following a decimal point; publications are shelved by number → 0
Candidate hypernym: modifier: a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb → 0
Candidate hypernym: riverbed: a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river → 0
Candidate hypernym: free hand: freedom to do as you see fit → 0
Candidate hypernym: choral ode: ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama → 0
Candidate hypernym: prescriptivism: (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior → 0
Candidate hypernym: common polypody: mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia → 0
Candidate hypernym: stone: an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds → 0