noun
- the practice of recruiting executives or highly skilled professionals from other companies
- the historical practice of taking and preserving human heads as trophies
Usage: business
Usage: historical; anthropological
Examples
- The tech company hired a headhunting firm to find a new CEO.
- Executive headhunting has become a billion-dollar industry.
- She works for a headhunting agency that specializes in finance professionals.
- The startup was targeted by headhunting companies looking to poach their engineers.
- Anthropologists studied the headhunting practices of certain tribal societies.
- The museum exhibit explored the cultural significance of headhunting rituals.