Usually means: Recruit skilled individuals for employment.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. headhunt: Merriam-Webster
  2. headhunt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. headhunt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. headhunt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. headhunt: Wordnik
  6. headhunt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. headhunt: Wiktionary
  8. headhunt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. headhunt: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. headhunt: Dictionary.com
  11. headhunt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. headhunt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. headhunt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headhunt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headhunt: Medical dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cut off, and preserve, the heads of one's enemies.
verb:  (intransitive) To actively recruit executive personnel.
verb:  (baseball, intransitive) To pitch at a batter's head.
verb:  (ice hockey, transitive) To use one's hockey stick to strike an opponent's head.

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