headhunter

See also: Headhunter, head-hunter, and head hunter

English

headhunter (plural headhunters)

(anthropology) A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
One who recruits senior personnel for a company.
She was the best headhunter they had ever seen.
(baseball) A pitcher who throws at the batter's head.
Thankfully, there aren't many headhunters in the modern game.
(ice hockey) A player who uses a hockey stick to attempt to strike an opponent's head.
He is known as a goon and a headhunter.

practitioner of headhunting

recruiter

Afrikaans: roofwerwer
Finnish: kykyjenmetsästäjä (fi)
French: chasseur de têtes (fr) m
Georgian: რეკრუტერი (reḳruṭeri), რეკრუიტერი (reḳruiṭeri), კადრების აყვანის აგენტი (ḳadrebis aq̇vanis agenṭi), კადრების შემრჩევი (ḳadrebis šemrčevi)
German: Headhunter (de) m
Greek: κυνηγός κεφαλών m (kynigós kefalón)
Hungarian: fejvadász (hu)
Polish: łowca głów (pl) m
Portuguese: caçador de talentos m, recrutador (pt) m
Romanian: recruiter m, recrutor (ro) m
Russian: охо́тник за голова́ми m (oxótnik za golovámi), охо́тник за ума́ми m (oxótnik za umámi)
Swedish: huvudjägare c
Turkish: personel avcısı

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