head-hunt

A form of headhunt — To cut off, and preserve, the heads of one's enemies.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person head-hunts · participle present head-hunting · participle past head-hunted · past head-hunted

  1. alternativeAlternative form of headhunt.

    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.

    2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 54
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APA

head-hunt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/head-hunt

MLA

“head-hunt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/head-hunt. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “head-hunt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/head-hunt.

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