1. recruitment specialists who seek out qualified candidates for executive or professional positions
Usage: business context
2. members of certain tribes who traditionally collected human heads as trophies
Usage: historical; anthropological

Examples

• The company hired headhunters to find a new CEO.
• Several headhunters contacted her about the marketing director position.
• Top headhunters often specialize in specific industries.
• The headhunters presented three qualified candidates to the board.
• Anthropologists studied the rituals of headhunters in the Amazon.
• Historical accounts describe headhunters in various Pacific island cultures.