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A headhunter is someone whose job is to find people with the right skills and talk them into leaving their present work for a new post. It can be one person or a whole company. You hear it in business, especially for jobs that are hard to fill. It is not a warm word; it sounds like a hunt on purpose. Though actually, the older meaning is much darker: in some histories a headhunter was a fighter who took an enemy’s head. Job English never means that now, but the old picture is why the word feels a little fierce — and why students sometimes freeze when they first see it.
獵頭（獵才顧問、獵頭公司）
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。
headhunternoun/ˈhɛdˌhʌntɚ/
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anthropologyhuman-sciencessciencesA person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them.
- We were accommodated here in the verandah of the large house, in which were several great baskets of dried human heads, the trophies of past generations of head-hunters.
- Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
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businessOne who recruits skilled personnel, especially executive-level ones, for a company.
- Near-synonyms: recruiter, talent scout
- A headhunter called me out of the blue with an offer I couldn't refuse.
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ball-gamesbaseballgamesA pitcher who throws at the batter's head.
- Thankfully, there aren't many headhunters in the modern game.
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hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleA player who uses a hockey stick to attempt to strike an opponent's head.
- He is known as a goon and a headhunter.
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。