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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
quota
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
export controls/restrictions/quotas (=official limits on the number of exports)
▪ The European Parliament wants tougher export controls on certain goods.
▪ The number of goods subject to import and export quotas is being reduced.
import quotas (=limits on the number of imports allowed)
▪ Each country introduced its own import quotas.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fishing
▪ This means that fishing quotas are likely to fall in coming years in order to preserve the long-term future of the fisheries.
▪ The Community system of fishing quotas 63.
▪ A complex settlement of this problem was not reached until January 1983, when Britain effectively got one-third of the fishing quotas.
full
▪ The full quota of how many and whose scripts went west in this rethink will probably never be known.
▪ Once a chariot has taken its full quota of wounds it is destroyed.
▪ She was comforted, being able to lay the full quota of blame at her dead sister's door.
national
▪ These are national quotas and must be removed or harmonised once frontier controls are eliminated.
racial
▪ Thomas was renowned as a vigorous opponent of affirmative action or reverse discrimination, espousing minority self-help rather than racial quotas.
▪ Respondent, echoing the courts below, labels it a racial quota.
▪ Preferential racial quotas in education violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 39.
■ NOUN
export
▪ But production quotas would be even more difficult to enforce than export quotas.
▪ An export quota for sawn timber has not yet been set.
▪ After their system of export quotas broke down in 1989, world coffee prices almost halved.
import
▪ For example, the enactment of import quotas, designed to compensate particular industrial supporters, may impose substantial additional costs.
▪ Conversely, suppose the United States was to solve its trade imbalance by imposing import quotas.
▪ Note also that with both the import quotas, the increase in the domestic firms' profits was substantial.
▪ Most important for our day is the almost universal support among economists for free trade and opposition to tariffs and import quotas.
▪ I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year's import quota.
▪ The higher import quota also means greater volume and higher profit margins for other refiners like Alexander&038;.
milk
▪ Butter mountains loom above lakes of olive oil. Milk quotas have been introduced to limit the output of over-productive herds.
▪ There were a number of dairy farmers whose uncertainty about milk quotas was reflected in their responses.
▪ Mr MacSharry wants to lower milk quotas and to cut guaranteed prices for dairy products, cereals and beef.
production
▪ All production quotas and standardised spook pools.
▪ Adelina has yet to reach her production quota.
▪ But production quotas would be even more difficult to enforce than export quotas.
▪ More often than not he managed supervision, set production quotas, controlled purchasing and distribution.
▪ The Authority's proposals had involved the imposition of import controls and production quotas.
▪ In 1986, with the Community still awash with milk, production quotas were imposed on dairy farmers.
sample
▪ Opinion polls in Britain are almost always conducted on quota samples.
▪ These are: random samples. quota samples.
▪ Among the inheritance of this type of survey are procedures known as the quota sample and the attitude questionnaire.
system
▪ Since 1944, for example, we have had a quota system which has never been effectively operated under Governments of either party.
▪ For twenty-five years women in this country have been arguing for quota systems so that women will be proportionately represented in politics.
▪ The quota system did it; there was a milk glut.
▪ At that time, the quota system would have been eliminated.
▪ Jan Hoet, the curator of Documenta 9, does no believe in quota systems.
▪ That objective was in keeping with the aims of the quota system.
▪ He accepted there had been an unofficial quota system to limit the number of women serving in the department.
▪ However, the party's representation flounders when it is freed from the rigours of the quota system.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ I was given soup from the middle pot, meaning I had just managed to achieve my work quota.
▪ Since I had not achieved my weekly quota of aggravation and misery, I went out and played golf last Saturday.
▪ And will the plant achieve its quota of employees with disabilities?
▪ When Sheila Sheffield fails to achieve her quota for the quarter, he helps Sheila discover the reasons.
▪ The most obvious practical implication of strokes is that we need to help people achieve their stroke quotas.
exceed
▪ You should check that you have not exceeded your disk quota.
▪ Applications had vastly exceeded the quota within a few days, reports said.
fill
▪ But the champions had already filled their overseas quota with Andrew Farrar.
▪ Because it can be sure of filling at least one quota, a big party can be sure of winning at least one seat.
impose
▪ Conversely, suppose the United States was to solve its trade imbalance by imposing import quotas.
meet
▪ This was enacted in 1944 and uses criminal prosecution as a sanction for an employer who fails to meet the disabled quota.
▪ They had difficulty in meeting their diocesan quota as it was.
reach
▪ Out of the 165 members elected only 25 reached the quota thanks to first-preference votes alone.
▪ Adelina has yet to reach her production quota.
▪ Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota.
▪ It may be lucky enough to win some seats without reaching the quota.
reduce
▪ At subsequent meetings efforts could be made to reduce this quota further.
▪ By 1961 internal tariff barriers had been substantially reduced and quota restrictions on industrial products had been largely eliminated.
set
▪ It is not always easy to get up to date information on which to set the quotas, especially in a small area sample.
▪ Perhaps a new manager had set an unrealistic quota for a subordinate because of his or her limited experience in setting quotas.
▪ It has set a total quota for all pelagic species of just 60,000 tonnes for 1991.
▪ More often than not he managed supervision, set production quotas, controlled purchasing and distribution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a meeting of OPEC countries to discuss production quotas
▪ a strict quota on imports
▪ An agreement on fishing quotas was reached by EU ministers yesterday.
▪ I think I've had my quota of coffee for the day.
▪ Most countries have an immigration quota.
▪ Several countries imposed quotas on imports of Japanese cars.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Boylan added that ethnic quotas are not imposed on state delegations to the convention.
▪ Even the luggage racks contained their quota of sailors, soldiers, or airmen.
▪ How efficient the place was - a model clearing house for death, turning out its yearly quota of corpses.
▪ Respondent, echoing the courts below, labels it a racial quota.
▪ Since 1944, for example, we have had a quota system which has never been effectively operated under Governments of either party.
▪ That brings Nuala O'Fail up to a quota.
▪ The traffic policemen used the Puerto Rican neighborhood to dump their quota of tickets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quota

Quota \Quo"ta\ (kw[=o]"t[.a]), n. [LL., fr. L. quota (sc. pars), fr. quotus which or what in number, of what number, how many, fr. quot how many, akin to quis, qui, who: cf. It. quota a share. See Who.]

  1. A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. ``Quota of troops and money.''
    --Motley.

  2. a share of effort required to be performed, or a share of resources required to be contributed to some common purpose.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
quota

1660s, from Medieval Latin quota, from Latin quota pars "how large a part," from quota, fem. singular of quotus "which, what number (in sequence);" see quote (v.). Earliest reference is to contributions of soldiers or supplies levied from a town or district; immigration sense is from 1921.

Wiktionary
quota

n. 1 A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. 2 A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.

WordNet
quota

  1. n. a prescribed number; "all the salesmen met their quota for the month"

  2. a proportional share assigned to each participant

  3. a limitation on imports; "the quota for Japanese imports was negotiated"

Wikipedia
Quota (disambiguation)

Quota is a proportional share, often used as the amount of some good that is assigned to member of a collection.

Quota may refer to:

Quota (computing)
Quota (EP)

Quota is the first official extended play by the Christian pop punk band Eleventyseven.

The EP was released digitally via the iTunes store and Amazon.com on April 29, 2011. However, it has since been pulled from purchase. It was also released in a physical format but is no longer in print. Later the same year, on October 26, the band released Sugarfist, their fourth full-length album that included five of the six songs from the EP . The Japanese edition of Sugarfist featured all six songs from Quota, making the release virtually obsolete except for collectors.

Quota

Quota, a proportional share or part that is due from or to any person or body of persons, in Med. Lat. quota, sc. Pars, from quotus, an adjective formed from quot, how many. The word first appears in connexion with the levying of men, money or supplies for military and naval purposes from districts, towns or seaports, and thus is equivalent to "contingent" (Lat. contingere, to happen to, fall to one's lot or share, cum, with, and tangere, to touch), used since the 18th century specifically of a contribution of men or ships according to a scale fixed between the contracting parties.

Usage examples of "quota".

They addressed his majesty to interpose with his allies that they might increase their quotas of land forces, to be put on board the fleet in proportion to the numbers his majesty should embark.

I should need 800 or 900 pullets to make our quota good, for most of the older hens would have to be disposed of in the autumn,--all but about 200, which would be kept until the following spring to breed from.

Last cycle, in the third sector, one Myal Thorkenson actually doubled his quota.

Effective the first of May, oxy quotas in all commercial buildings are reduced by ten per cent.

Always a fancier of panatelas, Cranston purchased a quota of the thin cigars.

He was doing very nicely in this heavily populated area, with its regular weddings and a full quota of girls wishful to be photographed as potential pin-up dollies somewhat saucier than the swimsuit beauties of the war.

The British police forces had only been given a quota of four secondees altogether and I was only twenty-five, black, and a woman.

At another angle, powerful dredges were working overtime to supply the lime kiln and the slaker with their quota of crushed oyster shells.

Stantington checked his pedometer and found that he had already walked one and a half miles of his ten-mile daily quota.

And how the poundage was under for that mission, and how the quota had to be revised in all the other districts, and how some men had to go to the Grind who were not listed by LOCAL DECISION.

From the viewpoint of a rationing system a middleman who distributes the product in violation and disregard of the prescribed quotas is an inefficient and wasteful conduct.

The current congressional redistricting effort is nothing more than political gerrymandering of racial quotas in specific districts to secure a Democratic majority in Congress.

Through those had fizzed the full quota of carbon monoxide produced by a spluttery motor that had an ill-regulated carburetor.

Flushed and dull of eye, Stillworth had obviously exceeded his normal quota of Bourbon this evening.

However, God helps those who help themselves, so this time, Torps, you can add your quota of assistance to the cause.