0 the act of counting how many people are present in a place:
1 the number of employees in an organization or at an event or place:
A thousand people have left in the last six months, bringing the company's headcount down to 3300.
cut/reduce/increase the headcount To help streamline the company, the board approved proposals to reduce the head count by 10 percent worldwide.
The company has embarked on a reorganization that should see its headcount fall from 8,200 to 7,000.
2 to count the number of people that work in an organization or are present at an event or a place:
The figures include prison officer, senior officer and principal officer specialists and are all on a headcount basis.
The numbers shown are expressed in headcount not whole-time equivalent terms.
Between 1997 and 2002, the headcount ratio has increased from 10 to 12.
The number of headcount and whole time equivalent general practitioners in each year between 1979 and 1997 is shown in the table.
The figures shown are on a headcount basis and apply to non-industrial civil servants only.
However, if one looks behind that, one sees that the majority that is being guaranteed was created artificially by a sectarian headcount.
The figures are on a headcount basis rather than whole-time equivalent.
The figures refer to basic grade officers, senior officers and principal officers and are on a headcount basis.
