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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

head-hunt en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of headhunt.
    alt of headhunt
    • But the beginning of the end to the rivalry came with the appointment of Sir Josiah Stamp as General Manager in 1926, and the LMS became a proper united front when William Stanier was head-hunted from the GWR in 1932 to become Chief Mechanical Engineer. 2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 54:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
head-hunts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
head-hunting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
head-hunted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
head-hunted Tense=Past lexicographic