head-hunt

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.