headhunting
Example Sentences
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He lost the case, but the litigation produced documents that he sent to Congress and the Justice Department, including spreadsheets showing commissions attributed to Mrs. Roberts early in her headhunting career, from 2007 to 2014.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2023
The city hired a headhunting firm for $75,000 to conduct a national search last spring and summer, which brought in 15 candidates.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2023
In the city's Futian district, Candice, a 28-year-old who works with a headhunting business, expressed dismay over the latest lockdown measures.
From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2022
What they actually do is hire headhunting firms.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022
The quality of statesmanship in Wood which dealt with these problems and settled them so that from a slave-holding, polygamous, headhunting land there arose a self-governing community is of the highest order.
From The Career of Leonard Wood by Sears, Joseph Hamblen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.