headhunt
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
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headhunts,
present (3rd person singular)
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headhunted,
past participle, past
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headhunting
present participle
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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headhuntsimple
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headhuntssimple
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have headhuntedperfect
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has headhuntedperfect
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am headhuntingprogressive
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are headhuntingprogressive
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is headhuntingprogressive
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have been headhuntingperfect progressive
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has been headhuntingperfect progressive
Past
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headhuntedsimple
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had headhuntedperfect
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was headhuntingprogressive
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were headhuntingprogressive
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had been headhuntingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of headhunt
Example Sentences
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After extensive research, they decided to headhunt a grower called Brady Green.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
"Chinese recruitment schemes have tried to headhunt British and allied nationals in key positions and with sensitive knowledge and experience," the government said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023
It said it recognised that China had "tried to headhunt British and allied nationals in key positions and with sensitive knowledge and experience, including from government, military, industry and wider society".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2023
"The government recognises that Chinese recruitment schemes have tried to headhunt British and allied nationals in key positions and with sensitive knowledge and experience," the government said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023
The Paxton character’s blustering attempt to headhunt this stubbornly self-sufficient newcomer makes for one of the movie’s funniest scenes.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2014
In no way did he betray the fact that he had been marked as the victim of one of the biggest headhunts in the history of Washington politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chantelle Nassari, who uses a wheelchair, was headhunted to work on Hollywood's take of the Broadway musical.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025
An investor headhunted Ulrich and offered him $10,000 more annually than his management job at a nearby factory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
Jason went on to have a wife and two children and was eventually headhunted by a global IT firm.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2021
Now it is Pochettino who is out of a job, and Mourinho who was headhunted to replace him.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2019
Although he has never, as far as anyone knows, been a member of a political party, Cummings was headhunted to be director of strategy for the then Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, in 2002.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2019
He lost the case, but the litigation produced documents that he sent to Congress and the Justice Department, including spreadsheets showing commissions attributed to Mrs. Roberts early in her headhunting career, from 2007 to 2014.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
The city hired a headhunting firm for $75,000 to conduct a national search last spring and summer, which brought in 15 candidates.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
The firm said on Sunday it would work with a headhunting firm to find a new CEO and did not set a timetable for the process.
From Reuters ● Aug. 12, 2022
What they actually do is hire headhunting firms.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022
The quality of statesmanship in Wood which dealt with these problems and settled them so that from a slave-holding, polygamous, headhunting land there arose a self-governing community is of the highest order.
From The Career of Leonard Wood by Joseph Hamblen Sears
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