head count

or headcount

noun

1. an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
2. any count of support, strength, etc.:

   a head count of senators opposing the bill.

Example Sentences

We've been forced to reduce our head count by another 1,000 officers, so we'll have gone down 6,000 since 2001.

From The Daily Beast

When she did not actually throw the men at his head Count Muffat pretended not to know about all this.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• census