0 past simple and past participle of headhunt --
1 to persuade someone to leave their job by offering that person another job with more pay and a higher position: --
Viggo was headhunted to become managing director, a position he held until 1969.
His chief salesman was headhunted.
After being headhunted for a human resources management post, he was rejected at the final interview.
A chief of staff or a commander-in-chief cannot be headhunted from outside the service.
During the period of change, some of its brightest executives will be headhunted by the new consortia bidding.
The entire team might be headhunted by countries with a more innovative approach to the public funding of science.
Senior staff were headhunted by other companies, whilst there was a great turnover in staff amongst the labouring grades.