Definition of "headhunt" [headhunt]

• To engage in headhunting. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "'headhunt' the better staff unlike, say, the Royal London."
• "The club's ambitions are such, however, that the billionaires in Abu Dhabi may feel more inclined to appoint one of their own or headhunt a replacement."
• "And the year before for "Shoot," in which Betty is inveigled back into the world of modeling by a big agency (McCann Erickson, which later buys Sterling Cooper's London owners) trying to headhunt Don."