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