quota
noun /ˈkwəʊtə/
/ˈkwəʊtə/
- [countable] quota (on something) a limited number or amount of people or things that is officially allowed
- to introduce a strict import quota on grain
Extra Examples- Many countries are still exceeding their quotas.
- national quotas on imports of cars
- quotas for oil production
- the introduction of EU milk quotas
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- strict
- annual
- …
- allocate
- establish
- impose
- …
- system
- quota for
- quota on
- [countable] an amount of something that somebody expects or needs to have or achieve
- I'm going home now—I've done my quota of work for the day.
- to get your full quota of sleep
Extra Examples- Members of the military forces must fulfil a daily quota of work in the fields.
- The show is good fun and yields its full quota of laughs.
- He never takes his full quota of holidays.
- We had to increase our output to fill the quota by the end of the year.
- [singular] (politics) (in a system of proportional representation) a fixed number of votes that a candidate needs in order to be elected
- He was 76 votes short of the quota.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin quota (pars) ‘how great (a part)’, feminine of quotus, from quot ‘how many’.