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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The deputies did not report the incident with the door, or Wallace's interception, to superiors, and failed to do a proper head count after finding him, the sheriff's office said.
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Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 24 May 2025
The escape wasn’t discovered until a routine head count at 8:30 a.m., Hutson said Friday.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
As a result, by the end of the 2021 fiscal year, the F.A.A. had a head count of 13,850, a decline of about 600 controllers since the end of 2016.
—Linda Qiu, New York Times, 17 May 2025
The department’s full-time head count stood at 61 employees on Dec. 31, a drop from the 71 employees Harkey oversaw before Johnson fired her, according to a September report by WBEZ calling attention to the department’s high turnover.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
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Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 24 May 2025
The escape wasn’t discovered until a routine head count at 8:30 a.m., Hutson said Friday.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
As a result, by the end of the 2021 fiscal year, the F.A.A. had a head count of 13,850, a decline of about 600 controllers since the end of 2016.
—Linda Qiu, New York Times, 17 May 2025
The department’s full-time head count stood at 61 employees on Dec. 31, a drop from the 71 employees Harkey oversaw before Johnson fired her, according to a September report by WBEZ calling attention to the department’s high turnover.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Head count.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/head%20count. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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