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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Dreier said that the Planetary Society is not advocating for NASA’s head count to grow — or even suggesting workforce reductions won’t help the agency become more nimble. — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025 But a public backlash may be growing to Musk’s mission, and far more is at stake than the size of the federal balance sheet, the head count at agencies inside the Beltway, or the dangers of one unelected man possessing such unconstrained power. — Simon Shuster, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025 Long-term funding questions are also dogging the Census Bureau, which carries out many of the federal government's surveys and is preparing for the 2030 head count that's set to be used to redistribute political representation and trillions in public funding across the country. — Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025 Until then, head count and fund-raising were badges of honor among founders, who philosophized that bigger was better. — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for head count

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