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

So there is no deep corporate investment in reducing head count at random federal agencies, and there is plenty of corporate angst about what DOGE might mean for the specific kinds of private-sector power that have metastasized all around Washington. —Ross Douthat, Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025

State of play: The Trump administration and Elon Musk's DOGE are looking to cut federal head count and pushing spending cuts that could affect the flow of government money to both state and local governments. —Neil Irwin, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025

These developments are mainly having benefits in terms of augmenting the existing labor force rather than trying to reduce the head count. —Steven Savage, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025

Of course, given that the Johnson administration refused suggestions from some aldermen to impose unpaid furloughs on city workers or to reduce head count, the city isn’t pursuing all such avenues. —The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for head count

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