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

According to Landrie’s scorecard, the head count is now 25 cousins who play basketball, including a 2-year-old who has a portable hoop and shoots free throws all over including on countertops. —Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026

What’s the outlook for your own head count? —Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 6 Mar. 2026

Between the end of 2019 and end of 2023, the company’s head count ballooned from 4,000 to almost 13,000 employees, per the WSJ, a major pandemic-era hiring spree. —Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of the Square parent, announced Thursday that his company is cutting about 40% of its workforce, reducing head count from over 10,000 to just under 6,000. —Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for head count

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