Usually means: Recruiting skilled personnel for employment.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. headhunting: Merriam-Webster
  2. headhunting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. headhunting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. headhunting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Headhunting, headhunting: Wordnik
  6. headhunting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. headhunting: Wiktionary
  8. headhunting: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. headhunting: Dictionary.com
  10. Headhunting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. headhunting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. headhunting: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (headhunting)

noun:  (anthropology) The practice of cutting off and preserving the head of one's enemy.
noun:  (business) The active recruitment of executive or talented personnel.

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