headcount

Plural: headcounts

Noun

• number of people in a particular group
• The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
• The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.
• More generally, a consideration of a company's appropriate staffing level based on some larger context. (Generally used adjectivally.)
• By extension, one slot in a workgroup, filled or to be filled by one person.

Examples

• Due to economic difficulties, the company will be making headcount adjustments.
• I've convinced management to give us one more headcount, to take some work off the rest of us.
• Let's take a quick headcount, to make sure we're all here.
• The company's headcount on January 1 was 15,203.

Synonyms

head count

Related Words

census, head tax, headage, per capita