head count

1. 1.

   number of people in a particular group

   Synonymsheadcount

   Broadercount

Questions about head count

What does head count mean?

head count means "number of people in a particular group".

What is another word for head count?

Close synonyms include headcount. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is head count a common word?

head count is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.