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.
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Currently, some of the cuts are pretty dramatic, both to the money and to head count.
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Aj Hess, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
The earlier layoff constituted 8% of staff, which will mean Lionsgate will have lightened its head count by 13% when this round of downsizing is done.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
The company plans to expand head count to 200 employees by year-end, up from the current 120, says Xu.
—Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
But several experts told Newsweek that excluding people living in the country without legal status from the head count used to allocate congressional seats among the states and determine how federal funding is distributed would run afoul of the U.S. Constitution.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
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Aj Hess, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
The earlier layoff constituted 8% of staff, which will mean Lionsgate will have lightened its head count by 13% when this round of downsizing is done.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
The company plans to expand head count to 200 employees by year-end, up from the current 120, says Xu.
—Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
But several experts told Newsweek that excluding people living in the country without legal status from the head count used to allocate congressional seats among the states and determine how federal funding is distributed would run afoul of the U.S. Constitution.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Head count.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/head%20count. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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