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

The fewer students Benton Harbor had, the less money it was allocated by a state formula that distributed school funding based largely on student head count.

From ProPublica

It also allowed the mayor to ignore the head count provision based on “fiscal necessity.”

From ProPublica

The office wasn’t able to fill the positions fast enough to keep up with the exits, and today, with a head count of 20 staffers, is almost half of the size it was at its peak in 2017, when it had 38.

From ProPublica

The captain did a quick head count, and checked that everyone was OK.

From Quanta Magazine

The filing comes less than two weeks after the retailer announced plans to slash its corporate head count by 20 percent and rearrange its store lineup and supply chain infrastructure to prioritize e-commerce.

From Washington Post

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