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quota

A quota is a limit to the numbers or amounts which are allowed. Fishermen always try to land more than their quota.

quota

a prescribed number all the salesmen met their quota for the month a proportional share assigned to each participant a limitation on imports the quota for Japanese imports was negotiated

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  • What words refer to a measured amount of something?

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Every outfit around about here is sending in a quota. One man apiece to fight the spaniards.
What about the French quota?
When he has all the souls he needs and has filled his quota we'll all be ferried to.
And when I fill my quota, I send a boatload home.
This is Malou, an Aleutian seal hunter who failed to turn in his quota for the Tzar.
With all these visitors drinking up my quota, I haven't got enough left for my regulars.
Every customer has a quota.
I decided to alter the work quota of our men.
We must fix the daily work quota for your men.
Any salesman who goes over his quota gets a holiday here.
There's a fixed quota for children.
He'll get his quota of killing, if you're lucky to win.
Give him the intelligence quota ray.
Captain Bligh had doubled our quota, thinking to please the West Indies Company and make amends for his tardiness.
The boiler house will meet the quota of the Plan's decisive year.
I say you've committed us to too great a quota.
Every outfit around about here is sending in a quota.
I'll just quickly deal my quota of punches.
I'm in the mood where you can make more than your usual quota of mistakes.
I've had my quota.
Those of you who top your quota will be amply rewarded.
There's such a demand that buyers queue up for their quota.
Go for your quota, Paddy.
Don't forget it's only two days to the policemen's ball, and you're way behind on your quota.
This is strictly off the record, of course, but if you got married to an American citizen- Not that I got anybody in particular in mind- then you could get a quota number, and you could stay here.
Or is there a quota on telephone calls up there?
I was flown in last night under embassy quota.
As from 0900 tomorrow, we are to receive a total quota of 60,000 evacuees in five priority classes.
One of our disintegration chambers has been eliminated, and we have already fallen far behind in our quota.
Our time is nearly up. Our quota is short by several thousand.
I've got a quota to meet.
I don't know how we'll make our quota.
After the first quota was filled, numbers were drawn, and the rest were taken.
In Moscow on a quota, just like us.
We're over our quota.

News and current affairs

Kagame then suggested giving every country an annual per capita quota for CO2 emissions, and allowing developing countries that are below the quota to trade their excess quota with countries that are above theirs.
Allocate to each country a greenhouse gas emissions quota equal to the country's population, multiplied by the per person share.
Finally, allow countries that need a higher quota to buy it from those that emit less than their quota.
Instead, bureaucrats and politicians prefer a quota system, whereby bureaucrats, not the market, select who immigrates.
During the past decade, Italy has used a majority electoral system corrected by a proportional quota.
Meanwhile, France and other EU countries should help Germany, Austria, Sweden, Hungary, and Slovenia to alleviate the refugee crisis by accepting a quota system.
In equal quota elections, the leaders present three candidates, leaving voters the task of picking one.
Of course, no one, even in China, thinks of differential quota elections as being truly democratic.
By any measure of economic importance, China and other major emerging economies have long since merited much larger IMF quota shares, implying greater financial contributions and greater voting weights.
Five years later, the US Congress is still holding up IMF quota reform - not because it would imply any loss of power or cost to US taxpayers, but because many members do not want to give Obama anything he asks for.
If the Congress does not pass the IMF quota reform, the US can hardly blame the Chinese for undertaking initiatives such as the AIIB on their own.
But a carbon tax is far more transparent and potentially less prone to the pitfalls seen in international carbon-quota trading.
The eurozone representative would be very influential, because he would represent an even larger quota than that of the US.
No wonder Merkel wants other European countries to take in more refugees under a mandatory quota system.
A quota-based agreement could help to disperse the burden across European countries.
Allocate to each country a greenhouse gas emissions quota equal to the country's population, multiplied by the per person share. Finally, allow countries that need a higher quota to buy it from those that emit less than their quota.
Their future is further clouded by the fact that the United States and the European Union will phase out their apparel quotas next year, potentially reducing quota-hopping investment in South Africa and the broader region.
But it was the US that had a quota of 2.2 million units for Japanese cars, while the Japanese market was open but difficult to penetrate.
Therefore, the upcoming quota review will have to give a greater weight to countries that are currently underrepresented, particular the world's dynamic emerging economies.
Saudi Arabia also fears that Iraq will regain its oil-output quota within OPEC, which the country couldn't meet, owing to poor security and infrastructure constraints.

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