head count
How many present
A head count is the number of people present or employed somewhere, determined by counting individuals: The head count for tonight's event is 247.
Organizations track head count for budgeting and staffing purposes.
To do a head count is to count everyone in a group: Let me do a quick head count before we leave.
Attendance-taking procedure
- check-inRegistering one's presence
- sign-inVerify identity for access
- rosterList of members
- turnoutNumber attending an event
registration · enrollment · admittance · verification · confirmation · present · absent · no-show
Sequential listing of items
- populationAll inhabitants combined
- demographicsStatistical population characteristics
- surveySystematic data collection
- residentsPeople living somewhere
inhabitants · households · statistics · data · census tract · sampling · demographer · nationality
Complete sum
- sumAddition's result
- numberSymbol representing quantity
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- tabulationOrganizing data systematically
reckoning · quantification · accumulation · aggregate · figure · estimate · running total · quota
Paid staff members
- personnelWorkers at an organization
- workforceAll available workers
- payrollStaff wages collectively
- hiringGiving someone work
layoffs · downsizing · restructuring · FTE · contractors · attrition · positions · vacancies
Collection of people meeting
- assemblyConstructing from components
- audienceGathered viewers collectively
- spectatorsThose who observe events
- attendeesPeople at an event
participants · throng · multitude · masses · turnout · venue · seating · standing room
roll call
Attendance-taking procedure
turnout · registration · enrollment · admittance · verification · confirmation · present · absent · no-show · capacity
enumeration
Sequential listing of items
- populationAll inhabitants combined
- demographicsStatistical population characteristics
- surveySystematic data collection
residents · inhabitants · households · statistics · data · census tract · sampling · demographer · nationality · ethnicity
total
Complete sum
- sumAddition's result
- numberSymbol representing quantity
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
tabulation · reckoning · quantification · accumulation · aggregate · figure · estimate · running total · quota · cap
employees
Paid staff members
hiring · layoffs · downsizing · restructuring · FTE · contractors · attrition · positions · vacancies · human resources
gathering
Collection of people meeting
- assemblyConstructing from components
- audienceGathered viewers collectively
- spectatorsThose who observe events
attendees · participants · throng · multitude · masses · turnout · venue · seating · standing room · sellout
- countingcountdown, tally, tallying, numeral, number
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- attendanceattendance, present, absent, here, attendance sheet
- counting activitiestallying, adding up, numbering, enumerating, tabulating
- cattle drivecattle drive, Chisholm Trail, chuck wagon, cowboy, drover
- census datapopulation census, national census, census forms, census form, census report
head countestimate
Informed guess at quantity
rough estimate · approximation · guesstimate · ballpark figure · projection