head count

noun

: an act of counting the number of people at a place, event, etc.

She did a head count to make sure all the students were on the bus.

Examples of head count in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Antonio Munoz, 36, was discovered missing around 10:30 p.m. during a head count at the Ishi Conservation Camp in Payne’s Creek, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Munoz, described as 6 feet and 200 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. —Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2025

While the agency had expanded its head count significantly over the past five years to administer pandemic-era relief programs, shedding that many people — partly through voluntary buyouts — could strain the agency’s flagship loan program. —Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025

Last year, Block capped its head count at 12,000 employees. —Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025

This enables teams to scale without proportionately increasing head count. —Jody Brazil, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for head count

• account
• amount
• discount
• dismount
• recount
• remount
• seamount
• surmount
• fount
• mount
• rediscount
• subaccount