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  • noun Plural form of headcount.

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Examples

  • ADP indicated that margins were pressured by investments in sales and service "headcounts"

    ADP: Income Statement Analysis for the December 2010 Quarter - Seeking Alpha 2011

  • That would allow the city bus company to share First Transit's ridership "headcounts" for federal funding purposes, he said.

    2theadvocate.com Latest News 2009

  • Asymmetrical Information links to Random Jottings, who quotes an anonymous economist on the possibility that the payroll employment survey double-counts jobs whenever the labor market gets so tight that workers take new jobs before their old employers can even update their headcounts.

    Double-Counted Jobs?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Cincinnati also logged their smallest headcounts in at least 100 years.

    Motor City population declines 25% 2011

  • Despite about half projecting higher revenues a year from now and only 10% anticipating a decline, most small businesses – 70% – have no plans to grow their headcounts during this time, the survey shows.

    Outlook Grows Bleak on Main Street Sarah E. Needleman 2011

  • However, underperforming trainees are typically among the first to go when firms face difficult market environments or consider paring their headcounts for other reasons as such brokers have smaller books of business than experienced colleagues.

    Morgan Stanley to Lay Off Up to 300 Trainees, Brokers Brett Philbin 2011

  • Dr. Stefano Scarpetta of the OECD found that new Italian firms increase their headcounts by 20% in their first two years, compared to 160% in the United States.

    Rome vs. the Unions Matthew Melchiorre 2012

  • Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Cincinnati also logged their smallest headcounts in at least 100 years.

    Motor City population declines 25% 2011

  • Elizabeth Razzi: Freelance writer Kimberly Lankford, who wrote the story on military buyers for the Mega issue, told me some are expecting relocations nearer to locations gaining BRAC headcounts to happen around 2012-2013, as locals get fed up with traffic and relocate closer to their new base.

    What to expect from D.C.-area housing market this spring 2011

  • The government's decentralization of the 1980s led to a 71% increase in local government headcounts, but there was no corresponding drop in central government, where the number of officials increased by 14% during the same period.

    A Dysfunctional French Democracy Emmanuel Martin 2011

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