QUOTAS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

quotas

noun

plural of quota

as in shares

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 quotas This creates a race to the bottom, where sales representatives trade margin for volume to hit their quotas. — Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026 As evidence, Vance pointed to a steep Canadian import tax on American dairy products beyond quotas the two countries previously agreed to. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 And though national team kits will be worn, there are no quotas for each country, unlike at an Olympic Games where there’s a limit of three per nation per event. — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, a separate proposal to boost European industry that would include quotas has divided France and Germany. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026 The Bund didn’t survive Hitler and Stalin, but its legacy lived on, particularly among Eastern European Jews who migrated to the United States before the racially discriminatory national origins immigration quotas of 1924. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Aug. 2026 As quotas for immigration arrests increased that spring, he was asked to press felony charges for even minor aggressions against agents. — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 Fisheries as the sticking point Under EU rules, fishing quotas are based on historical fishing patterns, among other things. — Reuters, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its ten affiliated states (known as OPEC+) has contentious quotas around oil production. — Dina Esfandiary, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Shares of rival Minimax have struggled in recent months to hold above their IPO-day gains, after seeing shares spike in the spring.

— Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
While new medicines are likely more than a year away from hitting US shelves, analysts expect Cosmo shares to nearly double over the next 12 months.

— Avalon Pernell, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of shares

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The latest delay came after Caltrans determined that portions of the highway surface required additional smoothing, a Caltrans spokesperson told Abridged.

— Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Harris has also said UCLA needs significantly more season-ticket holders, with a longer-term goal of removing the tarps covering portions of the Rose Bowl’s unused seating.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of portions

Noun

While cost is an important factor, service reliability and the availability of spare parts are also important considerations for truck carriers, and overhauling an entire fleet is a major investment.

— Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
That could make fleets of relatively inexpensive autonomous vessels useful for building persistent datasets across parts of the ocean that are poorly monitored today.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of parts

Noun

These were birds in a very different part of their migratory cycle, and their digestive organs, when analyzed, were of more normal proportions.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
The brick façade doesn’t have any fancy scrollwork, and the proportions suggest a prewar building with dark, narrow units crammed into the 25-foot-wide floors.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of proportions

Noun

Some addicts learned to game the system by obtaining daily allotments of hydromorphone pills—15 or more a day was typical—and then selling them to dealers in exchange for stronger fentanyl concoctions.

— Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
These phones have different sizes and shapes, different memory and storage allotments, and different camera systems.

— Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 24 July 2026

Definition of allotments

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