headcount.
The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
Meaning & usage
The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
Let's take a quick headcount, to make sure we're all here.
The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.
The company's headcount on January 1 was 15,203.
More generally, a consideration of a company's appropriate staffing level based on some larger context.
Due to economic difficulties, the company will be making headcount adjustments.
One slot in a workgroup, filled or to be filled by one person.
I've convinced management to give us one more headcount, to take some work off the rest of us.
Where this word comes from
From head + count.
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