head-hunt

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word head-hunt. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word head-hunt, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say head-hunt in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word head-hunt you have here. The definition of the word head-hunt will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofhead-hunt, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Verb

head-hunt (third-person singular simple present head-hunts, present participle head-hunting, simple past and past participle head-hunted)

  1. Alternative form of headhunt.
    • 2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 54:
      But the beginning of the end to the rivalry came with the appointment of Sir Josiah Stamp as General Manager in 1926, and the LMS became a proper united front when William Stanier was head-hunted from the GWR in 1932 to become Chief Mechanical Engineer.