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headcounts

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  1. The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
  2. The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.
  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. 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.”

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