headhunter
Americannoun
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a person who engages in headhunting.
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a personnel recruiter for a corporation or executive recruitment agency.
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an executive recruitment agency.
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Example Sentences
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Nicknamed the Headhunter, because she prefers to score points from her opponent's head rather than their body, Jones is the reigning world champion in her division and had entered the Games as number one seed.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2021
Corcodilos runs a Web site called Ask the Headhunter and is known for what he describes as his “iconoclastic techniques.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019
June 17, 2013, 9:03 pm Headhunter for the Rich Turns on Them Wall Street’s masters of the universe have a new enemy: Adrian Barrie Smith.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2013
Jade "Headhunter" Jones's dramatic taekwondo gold, Britain's first, nearly never happened.
From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2012
Headhunter Spencer Stuart is helping Agius in the search for the CEO and Ana Mann's MWM is helping John Sunderland, a Barclays non-executive director, run the chairman search.
From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2012
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