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
Boehly's pursuit of success has involved an aggressive headhunt of Brighton's best staff and their players.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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
"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
When Sobchak was voted out, his deputy was headhunted to work in the presidential administration in Moscow.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
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
Ken Linton did a PhD in engineering and computer science before going into banking, when he was headhunted by Lehman Brothers and transferred to Wall Street.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2020
Now it is Pochettino who is out of a job, and Mourinho who was headhunted to replace him.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2019
After making his name as a programmemaker, he initially became a commissioner at a rival broadcaster before being headhunted five years ago.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2019
As I reported at the time, his name came to the Board of Governors independently of a headhunting firm that the board had commissioned to find candidates for postmaster general.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
Those expat executives willing to relocate to the kingdom from neighboring Dubai, United Arab Emirates, can ask for 20% to 35% extra, according to headhunting firm Mark Williams.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023
Several headhunting firms offered her opportunities, but she settled on an American company based in China.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
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
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 Sears, Joseph Hamblen
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