0 present participle of headhunt
1 to persuade someone to leave their job by offering that person another job with more pay and a higher position:
They also made regular use of the border to escape punishment from one or the other state, for headhunting, tax evasion, and the like.
They agreed to cease headhunting, to bring all disputes to the government, and stop trading in smuggled goods.
They had no military training but a keen desire for headhunting and plunder.
I hope to have an undertaking tonight that this sort of "headhunting" will cease forthwith.
That is a much slower rate of growth than the national lottery, but we started the headhunting industry with £2,000 of equity capital and a £2,000 loan.
That experience is not strictly relevant, because headhunting primarily involves approaching individuals direct rather than recruitment advertising.
This is, for example, the case if an employer asks a headhunting agency to be selective on improper grounds.
I regard headhunting as a ghastly evil, born of desperation.
