🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

员工人数

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yuángōng rénshù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Headcount/ˈhɛd.kaʊnt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这家公司的员工人数已经超过了一千人。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The total number of people in a particular group, organization, or company.

    "The company's current headcount stands at five hundred employees worldwide."
  2. 2

    The act of counting people individually, typically to verify attendance or population size.

    "The teacher performed a quick headcount before boarding the bus."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Compound of the Old English word 'heafod' (head) and the Middle English 'counten' (to count, derived from Old French and Latin 'computare'). Originally referring to a literal physical counting of individuals, the term evolved in modern corporate and administrative contexts to denote the total number of employees in an organization.

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