as in portion
something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group
you need to meet your sales quota, or you'll be put on probation
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Recent Examples of quota
Some subcontractors couldn’t meet their output quotas, creating huge production logjams when crucial parts weren’t available in the necessary sequence.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
For example, the number of women’s football (soccer) teams increased to 16, while the quota for men’s soccer teams decreased to 12, swinging the gender imbalance in the other direction.
—Maya Silver, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2025
If a country sets hunting quotas to manage wolf populations, for example, individual farmers would be allowed to cull wolves in their area.
—Olivia Ferrari, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
As a long-term project, working to create tradeable property rights in U.S. fisheries quotas through the empowerment of U.S. fishing communities and the reduction of federal regulatory micromanagement.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
For example, the number of women’s football (soccer) teams increased to 16, while the quota for men’s soccer teams decreased to 12, swinging the gender imbalance in the other direction.
—Maya Silver, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2025
If a country sets hunting quotas to manage wolf populations, for example, individual farmers would be allowed to cull wolves in their area.
—Olivia Ferrari, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
As a long-term project, working to create tradeable property rights in U.S. fisheries quotas through the empowerment of U.S. fishing communities and the reduction of federal regulatory micromanagement.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quota
Noun
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The biggest portion of those cuts would be a reduction in K-12 funding by more than $4.5 billion.—
Ayana Archie,
NPR,
8 May 2025
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These include a change to the portion of state Medicaid costs borne by the federal government, which is currently at 90% for states that elected to expand their eligible Medicaid population.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Higher revenues, clubbed with margin expansion ,resulted in net earnings per share rising 27% year-over-year to $0.33.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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That’s more than four times the share of France, which ranks second, followed by Russia.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
9 May 2025
Noun
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One thing for certain, Trusty said, is that the fancy cars, houses and planes that Combs has accumulated are in the prosecutors’ crosshairs, as are any of his companies that could broadly be construed as being part of the racketeering enterprise in the slightest of ways.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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One of those places was a little diner called The Waffle Hut, which had been part of our town for several decades.—
Gwen Rockwood,
Arkansas Online,
15 May 2025
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Porzingis ranks last among all Celtics rotation players in both field-goal percentage (33.3%) and 3-point shooting percentage (13.6%) and has turned in seven single-digit scoring performances.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
13 May 2025
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The 2025 Democracy Perception Index, commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies, found that a majority of people surveyed around the world had an overall negative perception of the U.S., a greater percentage than last year’s findings.—
Annabella Rosciglione,
The Washington Examiner,
13 May 2025
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Some people may have a higher proportion of fast-twitch muscle fibers with greater growth potential.—
Alyssa Hui-Anderson,
Verywell Health,
16 May 2025
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Even on a total dollar basis across all states, not just those adopting Medicaid expansion, blue states received a lower proportion of Medicaid funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services than the federal government collected from them in federal tax receipts.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Golden’s travel allowance went from $40,000 to $70,000, the same as Napier.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 May 2025
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But the four workers themselves — two medical specialists advisers, one computer sciences engineer and a health data specialist— only received a monthly allowance between $990 and $1,200, for a total cost of $4,380, paid directly to them by Bahamian health authorities.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
5 May 2025
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Cash bonuses and Fulbright scholarship allotments are among the ideas under consideration.—
The Hill,
The Hill,
7 May 2025
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The couple, who are both fifth-generation South Dakotan ranchers, reportedly held a USFS National Grasslands grazing allotment in good standing since USFS' inception, which was well after the Maude family purchased the farm in 1910.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2025
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“Quota.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quota. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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