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headcount (plural headcounts)
The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.
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.
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.
The two-word spelling head count refers neutrally to simple counts. The one-word spelling headcount tends to have a business jargon feel to it, especially when used adjectivally in phrases such as "headcount reduction", or in the extrapolated case where it refers to one person or one job opening.
Source: Wiktionary
5 November 2024
(verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; “The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
