Definition of "head-hunter" [head•-hunt•er]

• Alternative spelling of headhunter. (noun)

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• "The government should also reduce dependency on outside "head-hunter" firms and cut the costs of recruitment, by developing Whitehall's in-house recruitment expertise."
• "The fascination here will be to see original director Max Stafford-Clark returning to the play he premiered at the Royal Court when Thatcherism was in the ascendancy, and asking whether today's women have anything in common with the thrusting, head-hunter, Marlene, who runs the employment agency, Top Girls."
• "Mr. Boire was put on Mr. Lampert's radar back in 2008 by Berglass & Associates, the executive recruitment firm that eventually placed him at Sears, according to Matt Berglass , president of the head-hunter."