How to Use head count in a Sentence

head count

noun
  • What’s the outlook for your own head count?
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • That came after Zoom had tripled its head count in two years.
    — WIRED, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Will adding head count enable reps to meet quota?
    — Ari Widlansky, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The key to this dramatic change has been trimming head count.
    — Thomas Lah, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • And there were plenty of to-be-sures and caveats attached to that latest head count.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
  • In some cases, the fastest way to show results is to simply reduce head count.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Chefs are given a head count at the beginning of the evening, at peak time and near the end of dinner.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
  • His escape went undetected for more than an hour until guards took a head count.
    — Maryclaire Dale and Marc Levy, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • And the fastest way for a CEO to produce results is to cut head count.
    — Josh Tyrangiel, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Its slate has not ramped up, the company hasn’t expanded in head count or office space.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The company is not adding to its head count in order to run the facility.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • That doesn’t include further head count reductions and layoffs this year.
    — Michael Wayland,robert Ferris, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Mayer would take a head count and personally run over and buy tickets during lunch.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2012
  • Currently, some of the cuts are pretty dramatic, both to the money and to head count.
    — Aj Hess, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The final delegate head count could be near to 3,000.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
  • By contrast, the shelter count is a head count gathered directly from the shelters.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • Some crew members also did a head count for their sections, but did not tally the numbers up across the aircraft.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In most cases, Cappelli said, AI doesn’t cut head count at all.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Cavalcante was gone for nearly an hour before his absence was noticed during a head count.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The company said its head count reductions have stemmed from less hiring and attrition.
    — Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • This year's freshman head count is similar to last year's, although transfer students are down 4%.
    — Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023
  • As a result, payments providers are scrutinizing budgets, and some have reduced head count.
    — Greg Cohen, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That’s a sizeable output for a company that’s never gone above 40 people as a head count in eight years.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • About 20 minutes had passed before a routine head count revealed that Hardin was missing.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 15 June 2025
  • Henderson was always the rudder, the one to keep a head count, never letting his teammates divide up.
    — Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 31 July 2024
  • Instead of lining up for a head count or responding to a roll call, legislators now had only to press a button.
    — James D’angelo, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Until then, head count and fund-raising were badges of honor among founders, who philosophized that bigger was better.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • About six dozen smaller cities, towns and villages have challenged their head count through two Census Bureau programs.
    — Mike Schneider, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Avianca's employee head count will grow by some 1,200, Neuhaser added.
    — Fox News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • About six dozen smaller cities, towns, and villages have challenged their head count through two Census Bureau programs.
    — Mike Schneider, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023

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