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To headhunt is to look for a person who already has the right skills — often someone in a good job — and try to pull them away to work for you instead. Companies headhunt engineers, doctors, managers. The word is business English; it feels a little sharp, like a hunt. Though actually, headhunt is the doing, not the person. The person (or the firm) who does this is a headhunter. Some people loosely say “a headhunt” for the search itself. Nobody in an office means a real hunt for a head; the picture is borrowed, and it is meant to sound fierce about talent, not about violence.
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組成A later verb cut back from headhunter (drop -er so you can talk about the action).
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- headhunterthe older noun; headhunt was made from it so English could name the action
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
headhuntverb/ˈhɛdˌhʌnt/
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To cut off, and preserve, the heads of one's enemies.
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To actively recruit executive personnel.
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ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo pitch at a batter's head.
- There's a brawl on the field because the pitcher has been headhunting throughout the game.
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hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleTo use one's hockey stick to strike an opponent's head.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。