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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
headhunter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A headhunter for ten years, Kinnaird has just been commissioned by his first female client, which speaks volumes.
▪ Companies in the survey were asked if they used any mechanisms to protect themselves against poaching by other businesses employing headhunters.
▪ Do you ever ask headhunters to recruit a whole team? 4.
▪ Do you use headhunters regularly or on specific occasions only? 3.
▪ Send your resume to headhunters you would like to contact you, but make certain it is professionally prepared and presented well.
▪ Sometimes the headhunter receives a fee for that advice without even undertaking an executive search.
▪ Unfortunately, the headhunter forgot to inform the candidate, so the meeting between the candidate and the client collapsed in misunderstanding.
▪ You could always return an imaginary call from a headhunter.
Wiktionary
headhunter

n. 1 A savage who cuts off the heads of his enemies, and preserves them as trophies. 2 One who recruits senior personnel for a company. 3 (context baseball English) A pitcher who throws at the batter head. 4 (context ice hockey English) A player who uses a hockey stick to attempt to strike an opponent's head.

WordNet
headhunter

  1. n. a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations)

  2. a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies [syn: head-shrinker]

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Headhunter

Headhunter or head hunter may refer to:

Headhunter (video game)

Headhunter is a video game developed by Amuze for the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 video game consoles. The Dreamcast version of the game was only distributed in Europe, by BigBen Interactive.

According to John Kroknes, creative director at Amuze, the game was strongly influenced by 1980s action movies and Paul Verhoeven's science fiction films.

For the majority of the game, the gameplay is that of a third-person shooter as players control protagonist Jack Wade. Jack travels between the main levels of the game on his motorcycle, and these sections take the form of a racing game, with the motorbike's acceleration and braking controlled using the sensitive analogue trigger buttons of the Dreamcast control pad.

Music for the game was composed by Richard Jacques and recorded at Abbey Road Studios. In 2004 its sequel, Headhunter Redemption, was released on Xbox and PlayStation 2.

Headhunter (novel)

Headhunter is a novel by Timothy Findley. It was first published by HarperCollins in 1993.

Headhunter (album)

Headhunter is the seventh studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus, released in 1983. It achieved Gold status in the United States. The track "Screaming in the Night" was the band's biggest hit to date, and is still played on classic rock radio stations. Headhunter is the only Krokus album to feature Steve Pace on drums, and includes the Bachman–Turner Overdrive cover "Stayed Awake All Night".

UK-based company Rock Candy Records reissued the album on CD in 2014.

Headhunter (song)

"Headhunter" is a 1988 song by the Belgian EBM band Front 242. The song was a major hit in the electronic and industrial music scenes, and Front By Front subsequently became the top selling album in the history of Wax Trax! Records.

Usage examples of "headhunter".

Her maternal grandfather had been a Borneo headhunter and her maternal grandmother a Batak and a cannibal.

There was Headhunter in his Supersuit disguise, wandering in a subway crowd, Hanus and Malicia somewhere distantly in the background, searching for him.

Headhunter scanned the crowd at the subway station for Hanus and Malicia, without success.

Shrunken skin, the tri-marked forehead, had pointed to the Jibaro headhunters.

But the Jibaro headhunter, armed with a poisonous weapon, was as dangerous as a venomous reptile.

Zenjora spoke in a strange tongue, giving a command to the Jibaro headhunters.

It had been burned during the last foray of the headhunters, and was now uninhabitable.

Without being conscious of it, tears stood in his eyes, and he vowed that he would rebuild when the headhunters should have removed their dreaded presence from the jungle.

But now, owing to the possible presence of the dreaded headhunters in the jungle, he dared do nothing that would betray his presence to the marauders.

If the headhunters had really gone, why had not the natives returned to their usual haunts ?

It was that the headhunters must be present in large force, or they would not have dared thus to challenge the wrath of the most powerful native tribe of the district.

Without their chief the headhunters would be confused and bewildered, and, not knowing what to do, would probably do nothing.

Two hours before they had been helpless victims in the hands of the headhunters, doomed to torture and to death.

One, consisting of picked warriors under the leadership of Lodo, with Grico as his lieutenant, proceeded toward the Giant Cataract to give battle to the headhunters and remove forever, if possible, that menace to the peaceful tribes of the region.

The many composite sketches provided by police artists and mob headhunters alike agreed in but one detail, the eyes-and, indeed, though they captured one essence of the subject, these were without exception the coldly purposeful eyes of the combatman, which seemed to be the one detail which never escaped the living memory of a Bolan encounter.