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WORD ORIGINquota

Origin:

1600-1700 Medieval Latin, Latin quota pars ‘how large a part’

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

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 THE 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.

THESAURUS► amount

how much of something there is: · Try to reduce the amount of fat in your diet.· a tiny amount of poison

► quantity

a particular amount of food, liquid, or another substance that can be measured – used especially in written descriptions and instructions: · Make sure that you add the right quantity of milk.· They buy the wood in large quantities.

► volume

the amount of something such as business activity or traffic, especially when this is large or increasing: · The volume of traffic on our roads has risen sharply.· the huge volume of trade with China

► level

the exact amount of something at one time, which can go up or down at other times: · They measured the level of alcohol in his blood.· There is a high level of unemployment.

► proportion

the amount of something, compared with the whole amount that exists: · the proportion of road accidents caused by drunk drivers· A high proportion of the students were from poor families.

► quota

a maximum amount of something that can be produced, sold, brought into a country etc: · import quotas on Japanese cars

► yield

the amount of something that is produced, especially crops: · this year’s cotton yield

Longman Language Activatora measured amount of goods► quota

an official limit on the amount of something that can be produced, sold, brought into a country etc: · An agreement on fishing quotas was reached by EU ministers yesterday.· a meeting of OPEC countries to discuss production quotasimpose a quota on/for something: · Several countries imposed quotas on imports of Japanese cars.

► yield

the amount of something that is produced, especially crops: · a 22% fall in this year's cotton yield

WORD SETS► BUSINESS

absolute advantage, aggregate demand, AGM, nounagribusiness, nounairline, nounappurtenance, nounassessment, nounbad debt, nounbalance sheet, nounbankroll, verbbankrupt, adjectivebankrupt, verbbankrupt, nounbankruptcy, nounbargain, verbbargain basement, nounbaron, nounbill of sale, nounbiz, nounblack market, nounblack marketeer, nounboom, nounboom and bust, nounboom town, nounbrown goods, nounbubble, nounbudget surplus, business card, nounbusiness cycle, business hours, nounbuyout, nouncapital, nouncapital-intensive, adjectivechamber of commerce, nounclerical, adjectiveconsumer, nounconsumer goods, noundisposable income, noundownturn, noundrive-through, nouneconomically, adverbfinancial, adjectiveflat, adjectivefree enterprise, noungiveaway, adjectiveincrement, nounindustry, nouninflate, verbinflated, adjectiveinflation, nouninflationary, adjectiveinsolvent, adjectiveinstitution, nouninterest, nounintroduction, nounlivery, nounlow season, nounlucrative, adjectiveMBA, nounmemo, nounmentoring, nounnegotiable, adjectivenegotiate, verbnegotiation, nounnon-profit, adjectiveopen, verboperational research, nounowner-occupied, adjectivepack, nounpackage, nounpaperwork, nounpatron, nounpatronage, nounpatronize, verbpay, verbpcm, peppercorn rent, nounpersonal assistant, nounplanned obsolescence, nounpp., quarter, nounquarter day, nounquota, nounquote, verbready-made, adjectivereal estate, nounrebate, nounredeem, verbredevelop, verbrefund, nounrent, nounshutdown, nounsliding scale, nounsubcontract, verbsubcontractor, nountariff, nounundercut, verbundersubscribed, adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs► impose/introduce a quota

(=officially start it)· In 1993 the European Union imposed quotas on banana imports.

► set a quota

(=say how much it is)· They have the right to set fishing quotas.

► lift/scrap a quota

(=stop it)· The minister for trade lifted all quotas on imports and exports.

► exceed a quota

· The fishermen were accused of exceeding their quotas.

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + quota► a national quota

· Five countries maintained national quotas on imports of Japanese cars.

► fishing quotas

· The fishing quotas are strictly enforced.

► production quotas

· With an excess of milk in the European Union, production quotas were imposed on dairy farmers.

► import/export quotas

· British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by higher tariffs and import quotas.

► an annual quota

· The US immigration laws imposed a strict annual quota for each country of origin.

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 THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► 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&.

► 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.

单词	quota
释义	quotaquo‧ta /ˈkwəʊtə $ ˈkwoʊ-/ ●○○ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINquota Origin: 1600-1700 Medieval Latin, Latin quota pars ‘how large a part’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES 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 THE 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. Thesaurus THESAURUS► amount how much of something there is: · Try to reduce the amount of fat in your diet.· a tiny amount of poison ► quantity a particular amount of food, liquid, or another substance that can be measured – used especially in written descriptions and instructions: · Make sure that you add the right quantity of milk.· They buy the wood in large quantities. ► volume the amount of something such as business activity or traffic, especially when this is large or increasing: · The volume of traffic on our roads has risen sharply.· the huge volume of trade with China ► level the exact amount of something at one time, which can go up or down at other times: · They measured the level of alcohol in his blood.· There is a high level of unemployment. ► proportion the amount of something, compared with the whole amount that exists: · the proportion of road accidents caused by drunk drivers· A high proportion of the students were from poor families. ► quota a maximum amount of something that can be produced, sold, brought into a country etc: · import quotas on Japanese cars ► yield the amount of something that is produced, especially crops: · this year’s cotton yield Longman Language Activatora measured amount of goods► quota an official limit on the amount of something that can be produced, sold, brought into a country etc: · An agreement on fishing quotas was reached by EU ministers yesterday.· a meeting of OPEC countries to discuss production quotasimpose a quota on/for something: · Several countries imposed quotas on imports of Japanese cars. ► yield the amount of something that is produced, especially crops: · a 22% fall in this year's cotton yield WORD SETS► BUSINESS absolute advantage, aggregate demand, AGM, nounagribusiness, nounairline, nounappurtenance, nounassessment, nounbad debt, nounbalance sheet, nounbankroll, verbbankrupt, adjectivebankrupt, verbbankrupt, nounbankruptcy, nounbargain, verbbargain basement, nounbaron, nounbill of sale, nounbiz, nounblack market, nounblack marketeer, nounboom, nounboom and bust, nounboom town, nounbrown goods, nounbubble, nounbudget surplus, business card, nounbusiness cycle, business hours, nounbuyout, nouncapital, nouncapital-intensive, adjectivechamber of commerce, nounclerical, adjectiveconsumer, nounconsumer goods, noundisposable income, noundownturn, noundrive-through, nouneconomically, adverbfinancial, adjectiveflat, adjectivefree enterprise, noungiveaway, adjectiveincrement, nounindustry, nouninflate, verbinflated, adjectiveinflation, nouninflationary, adjectiveinsolvent, adjectiveinstitution, nouninterest, nounintroduction, nounlivery, nounlow season, nounlucrative, adjectiveMBA, nounmemo, nounmentoring, nounnegotiable, adjectivenegotiate, verbnegotiation, nounnon-profit, adjectiveopen, verboperational research, nounowner-occupied, adjectivepack, nounpackage, nounpaperwork, nounpatron, nounpatronage, nounpatronize, verbpay, verbpcm, peppercorn rent, nounpersonal assistant, nounplanned obsolescence, nounpp., quarter, nounquarter day, nounquota, nounquote, verbready-made, adjectivereal estate, nounrebate, nounredeem, verbredevelop, verbrefund, nounrent, nounshutdown, nounsliding scale, nounsubcontract, verbsubcontractor, nountariff, nounundercut, verbundersubscribed, adjective Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs► impose/introduce a quota (=officially start it)· In 1993 the European Union imposed quotas on banana imports. ► set a quota (=say how much it is)· They have the right to set fishing quotas. ► lift/scrap a quota (=stop it)· The minister for trade lifted all quotas on imports and exports. ► exceed a quota · The fishermen were accused of exceeding their quotas. ADJECTIVES/NOUN + quota► a national quota · Five countries maintained national quotas on imports of Japanese cars. ► fishing quotas · The fishing quotas are strictly enforced. ► production quotas · With an excess of milk in the European Union, production quotas were imposed on dairy farmers. ► import/export quotas · British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by higher tariffs and import quotas. ► an annual quota · The US immigration laws imposed a strict annual quota for each country of origin. 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 THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► 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&. ► 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. 1an official limit on the number or amount of something that is allowed in a particular periodquota on The government has imposed quotas on the export of timber. The government has decided to scrap quotas on car imports.quota for Several countries have now set quotas for cod fishing. There are plans to introduce strict immigration quotas.► see thesaurus at amount2an amount of something that someone is expected to do or achievequota of Each person was given a quota of tickets to sell.quota for In the 1990s the Navy couldn’t fill its quota for new recruits.meet/make/achieve a quota Workers only get paid if they make their quota.sales/production quota They’re worried that they won’t achieve this year’s sales quota.3an amount of something that you think is fair, right, or normal SYN fair sharequota of The committee has had more than its quota of problems. I think I’ve had my quota of coffee for the day.4British English a particular number of votes that someone needs to get to be elected in an electionCOLLOCATIONSverbsimpose/introduce a quota (=officially start it)· In 1993 the European Union imposed quotas on banana imports.set a quota (=say how much it is)· They have the right to set fishing quotas.lift/scrap a quota (=stop it)· The minister for trade lifted all quotas on imports and exports.exceed a quota· The fishermen were accused of exceeding their quotas.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + quotaa national quota· Five countries maintained national quotas on imports of Japanese cars.fishing quotas· The fishing quotas are strictly enforced.production quotas· With an excess of milk in the European Union, production quotas were imposed on dairy farmers.import/export quotas· British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by higher tariffs and import quotas.an annual quota· The US immigration laws imposed a strict annual quota for each country of origin.
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