Usually means: Recruiter specializing in executive placements.
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  1. headhunter: Merriam-Webster
  2. headhunter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. headhunter: Collins English Dictionary
  4. headhunter: Vocabulary.com
  5. Headhunter, headhunter: Wordnik
  6. headhunter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. headhunter: Wiktionary
  8. headhunter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. headhunter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. headhunter: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. headhunter: Dictionary.com
  12. headhunter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Headhunter (album), Headhunter (comics), Headhunter (disambiguation), Headhunter (novel), Headhunter (series), Headhunter (song), Headhunter (video game), Headhunter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. headhunter: Rhymezone
  15. headhunter: FreeDictionary.org
  16. headhunter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. headhunter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. headhunter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. headhunter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. headhunter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Headhunter (disambiguation), headhunter: Medical dictionary

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  1. headhunter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anthropology) A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them.
noun:  (business) One who recruits senior personnel for a company.
noun:  (baseball) A pitcher who throws at the batter's head.
noun:  (ice hockey) A player who uses a hockey stick to attempt to strike an opponent's head.

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