headhunt
noun
a headhunting expedition.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Did he want to stop the speculation that the Berlin Philharmonic or New York Philharmonic, with upcoming vacancies, were headhunting him?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2015