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- noun Plural form of
head-hunter .
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Examples
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Liverpool's missing head Spencer Stuart, the firm of head-hunters appointed to find Liverpool's chief executive more than three months ago, say the process is "ongoing".
Anti-Glazer protest leads to slump in Manchester United shirt sales 2011
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Even then she was on the wild coast of Malaita, and at Poonga-Poonga, of all villainous and dangerous portions the worst, peopled with a teeming population of head-hunters, robbers, and murderers.
Chapter 17 2010
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The beggars are all head-hunters, and they especially esteem a white man's head.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Head to Lead Lloyds Heard on the Street: Lloyds Bags a Star One can see why he would have been top of the head-hunters 'list to replace outgoing chief executive Eric Daniels.
Lloyds Can Expect Foreign Adventures Patience Wheatcroft 2010
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The beggars are all head-hunters, and they especially esteem a white man's head.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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The grinning house-boys shouted encouragement and explanation, and the stampede was checked, the new-caught head-hunters huddling closely together and staring dubiously at the fearful monster.
Chapter 18 2010
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I don't think I care to visit the head-hunters any more.
Chapter 25 2010
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Every member of Tudor's expedition was accounted for; and it was a long, dark way out of the head-hunters 'country.
Chapter 25 2010
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They were from an island of cannibals and head-hunters, and they never cried out.
CHAPTER II 2010
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The beggars are all head-hunters, and they especially esteem that of a white man.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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