2. Noun. The cutting-off and preservation of the heads of one's enemies ¹
3. Noun. The active recruitment of executive or talented personnel ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Headhunting
1. headhunt [v] - See also: headhunt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headhunting
Literary usage of Headhunting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. America and the Philippines by Carl Crow (1914)
"headhunting was the way in which the various wild tribes manifested their ...
The Americans soon found that the feuds of the headhunting villages existed ..."
2. Our New Possessions ...: A Graphic Account, Descriptive and Historical, of by Trumbull White (1898)
"headhunting is practiced by the ... There are a number of other headhunting
peoples, among whom may be mentioned the ..."
3. Defending the Earth: Abuses of Human Rights and the Environment by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch (Organization, Natural Resources Defense Council (1992)
"The logging vigilantes have terrorized indigenous people with their menacing
behavior and by implying that they would gladly engage in headhunting if ..."
4. The Solomon Islands and Their Natives by Henry Brougham Guppy (1887)
"When Mr. Brenchley visited this village in HMS "Curacoa" in 1865, he saw evidence
of a headhunting foray, in which probably Taki had taken part in his ..."
5. Indivisible Human Rights: The Relationship of Political and Civil Rights to by Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1992)
"While this may sound unlikely in the west, it has a very real ring to the indigenous
people of Borneo, where headhunting among some groups continued until ..."
6. The World's Peoples: A Popular Account of Their Bodily & Mental Characters by Augustus Henry Keane (1908)
"The result of the union were a man and a woman, parents of all the natives, and
also of Tokong, father of headhunting. The after-world is underground and, ..."
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