headcount

n. 点人头数总人数, 职员总数

发音

/ˈhɛdˌkaʊnt/

词形变化

headcounts 复数 headcounts

别名

head count

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of counting how many people are present in a group.

    Let's take a quick headcount, to make sure we're all here.

  2. 2.

    The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.

    The company's headcount on January 1 was 15,203.

  3. 3.

    More generally, a consideration of a company's appropriate staffing level based on some larger context. (Generally used adjectivally.)

    Due to economic difficulties, the company will be making headcount adjustments.

  4. 4.

    By extension, one slot in a workgroup, filled or to be filled by one person.

    I've convinced management to give us one more headcount, to take some work off the rest of us.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

count

词源

From head + count.

来源：wiktionary