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Definition: Quota |
QuotaNoun1. A prescribed number; "all the salesmen met their quota for the month". 2. A proportional share assigned to each participant. 3. A limitation on imports; "the quota for Japanese imports was negotiated". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quota" was first used: 1668. (references) |
Etymology: Quota \Quo"ta\, noun. [LL., from the Latin expression quota (sc. pars), from quotus which or what in number, of what number, how many, from quot how many, akin to quis, qui, who: compare to Italian expression quota share. See Who.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | A set goal for sales or other effort in terms of dollars, sales units, or a percentage of the total goal. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Of international commodity agreements, quantities of the commodity under consideration which contracting countries undertake to import, or quantities which exporting contracting countries undertake not to exceed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Economics | A limitation on the quantity of goods that may be imported into a country from all countries or from specific countries during a set period of time. Export quotas have similar parameters. (references) |
Finance | A country's subscription to the IMF. Twenty five per cent used to be represented by gold(now by SDRs)and the remainder by a subscription in the country's domestic currency. The size of the country's quota governs its voting rights within the IMF. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Quota (Latin). The allotted portion or share; the rate assigned to each. Thus we say, "Every man is to pay his quota towards the feast." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Shipping | The quantity of goods that may be imported without restriction during a set period of time. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | QUOTA. Snack, share, part, proportion, or dividend. Tip me my quota; give me part of the winnings, booty, or plunder. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Social Sciences | A defined proportion or share of places, seats or resources to be filled by or allocated to a specific group, generally under certain rules or criteria, and aimed at correcting a previous imbalance, usually in decision making positions or in access to training opportunities or jobs. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Compulsion placed on every employer, or those having more than a fixed minimum number of employees, to employ a fixed minimum or percentage of disabled persons. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A quota is a prescribed number or share of something.In proportional representation, a quota is a lowerbound on the number of votes needed to be elected. There are a number of such schemes:
In computing:
- Droop quota
- Hagenbach-Bischoff quota
- Hare quota
- Imperiali quota
- Ross quota
In affirmative action:
- disk quota
In immigration:
- Racial quota
- Emergency Quota Act
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quota."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Apportionment | Dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte. |
Expenditure | Payment; pay; (remuneration); bribe; fee, footing, garnish; subsidy; tribute; contingent, quota; donation;. |
Giving | Make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | He's got a quota to fill (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hora quota est (1966) | |
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 | "Master Sergeant Robert I. Ward, non-commissioned officer in charge of the First Marine Aircraft Wing's 'Flying Nightmares' squadron radio operators has recently qualified as the senior Papasan in Korea. He has not only completed his quota of night missions but he is the oldest radio operator in the Marine Corps." Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 9 October 1952. MSgt. Ward is dressed in rather fancy Korean gentleman's garb. He is posing on the wing of what appears to be a Grumman F7F "Tigercat". Credit: NAVY. |  | Uncle Sam presents his return quota of "assisted" immigrants. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Japanese-American volunteers. First of the territory's quota of 1,725 AJA (Americans of Japanese ancestry) volunteers to be inducted into the U.S. Army Combat Regiment now being formed, 18-year-old Mitsura Doi of Kauai, Hawaii, garage worker, receives con. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Local Board #17, last quota, 815 men, Nov. 11, 1918, L.A. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Quota allocation largely remains non transparent to outsiders. (references) | |
There is no restriction on ownership or ownership interest quota in ISPs companies applicable to foreign subjects. (references) | ||
Steep import duties, registration fees and a vehicle quota system contribute to the level of vehicle ownership in Singapore. (references) | ||
Children | Jordan | Students must obtain a good behavior certificate from the GID in order to qualify for admission under the university quota system. (references) |
Luxembourg | Businesses and enterprises with at least 25 employees by law must fill a quota for hiring workers with disabilities and must pay them prevailing wages. (references) | |
Korea | Surveys indicate that most companies either pay the fine or evade the law, with one 1999 survey indicating that 9 out of 10 firms with more than 300 employees failed to meet the mandated 2 percent job quota for persons with disabilities; the hiring of the persons with disabilities remains significantly below target levels. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | New Zealand | Under its refugee quota, the Government accepts up to 750 UNHCR-approved refugees per year. (references) |
New Zealand | As part of this quota, in July the Government accepted more than 130 asylum seekers who were rescued from a sinking boat in international waters between Indonesia and Australia. (references) | |
Norway | The total included: Political asylum for 97 persons; temporary collective residency permits for 2,019 Iraqi Kurds; individual residency permits for 2,856 persons; and asylum as U.N. quota refugees for 1,485 persons. (references) | |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | In early 2001, EU lifted quota restrictions on Sri Lankan garments. (references) |
Kazakhstan | As of July 2001, Kazakhstan's quota was set at 17.3 million tons per year. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | Since then, Saudi oil policy has been guided by a desire to maintain market and quota shares. (references) | |
Minorities | Estonia | In addition the amendment provides that the quota will not apply to children up to 15 years of age if the parents are applying for a residence permit. (references) |
Brazil | In October the state passed a law establishing a quota of 40 percent of state university admissions for "black" or "brown" students; at year's end, the law had not yet been implemented. (references) | |
Estonia | In 1999 the Government dropped the immigration quota on the issuance of residence permits to those noncitizens who settled in the country prior to July 1, 1990, and who did not depart the country subsequently. (references) | |
Political Economy | THAILAND | Corn and fresh potatoes are subject to a Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) that limits import levels. (references) |
VENEZUELA | There is also an annual quota regarding the distribution and exhibition of Venezuelan films. (references) | |
NETHERLANDS | Commercial broadcasters may apply for temporary exemptions of the quota requirement on an ad hoc basis. (references) | |
Political Rights | Colombia | In March 2000, a quota law to increase the number of women in high-level public positions went into effect. (references) |
Germany | The Social Democrats have a 40-percent quota for women on all party committees and governing bodies, and they have met that goal. (references) | |
Colombia | In March the Constitutional Court decided that the statutory quota cannot be applied to candidates for local election or public enterprises. (references) | |
Trade | Malaysia | Rubberwood, however, is subject to an export quota. (references) |
Brazil | Products manufactured in Manaus are not subject to the quota. (references) | |
Greece | The EU applies certain quota restrictions on products from low-cost countries. (references) | |
Women | Morocco | On November 8, one feminist columnist, Nouzha Skalli, called for a quota system. (references) |
Oman | The university has a quota system with the apparent goal of increasing the number of men studying certain specialties. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | In 2000 the Government promised to grant a quota of 20 percent of resettled land to women, although they comprise nearly 80 percent of the rural population. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Dominican Republic | Most teams are unable to fill the quota to receive the benefits and are not paid overtime pay for the extra time they put in to attempt to fill the quota. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Legal foreign labor is limited by a quota of 10,500 workers per year, which generally is filled by Turkish, Western European, and American workers in the oil industry. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | For example, many companies use an incentive system in which a team of 12 to 15 persons is given a quota to fill by the end of the week, in order to receive extra benefits. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | In the one case the State would receive its quota of the national revenue for domestic use upon a fixed principle as a matter of right, and from a fund to the creation of which it had itself contributed its fair proportion. |
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| "Quota" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.76% of the time. "Quota" is used about 819 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.76% | 817 | 8,563 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 819 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "quota": daily quota ♦ electoral quota ♦ export quota ♦ furnish its quota ♦ IMF quota ♦ immigration quota ♦ per capita quota ♦ quota in the IMF ♦ quota post ♦ quota sampling ♦ quota share reinsurance ♦ quota system ♦ sales quota ♦ taxable quota. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "quota": quota-based, quota-driven, quota-equivalent, quota-hopping, quota-list, quota-registered. | |
Ending with "quota": non-quota. | |
Containing "quota": non-quota post. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "quota"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sasi e caktuar, pjesë (allotment, block, Cantel, Cantle, component, contingent, deal, divvy, helping, interest, kit, leg, length, limb, line, lot, part, partition, patch, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quotient, rate, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, snack, span), kuotë (price, subscription). (various references) | |
Arabic | كوتا حق, كوتا, نصيب (destiny, fortune, lot, luck, odds, portion, share, slice, whack), حصة نسبية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | част (concern, detachment, division, fraction, interest, lap, leg, member, movement, outfit, parcel, part, partition, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, rate, section, segment, share, slice, snack, unit), квота, норма (norm, rate, standard), наряд (detail, fatigue, fatigue duty), процент (per cent, percentage, proportion, rake off, rate), дял (allocation, allotment, concern, contingent, deal, dos, interest, lobe, parcel, part, partition, portion, proportion, quantum, sector, segment, share, slice, snack, value, whack). (various references) | |
Chinese | 配额, 額 (amount, forehead, quantity, volume). (various references) | |
Czech | podíl (contribution, holding, interest, lot, part, participation, portion, quotient, share), penzum (stint), norma (norm, rule, standard, target), kvóta (allocation), kontingent (contingent). (various references) | |
Danish | pro rata andel (proportional share), kvote i IMF (IMF quota, quota in the IMF), kvote, kvotaordning, kvota, kontingent, IMF-kvote (IMF quota, quota in the IMF). (various references) | |
Dutch | quotum-verplichting, quotum bij het IMF (IMF quota, quota in the IMF), quotum, quote (proportional share, ratio), quota (proportional share), evenredige bijdrage (proportional share), evenredig aandeel (proportional share). (various references) | |
Farsi | سهمیه (Ration, Scantling), سهم (Allotment, Arrow, Contribution, Lot, Portion, Proportion, Ratio, Ration, Scantling, Share, Slice, Whack), بنیچه . (various references) | |
Finnish | kiintiö (quote). (various references) | |
French | quota, quote-part, contingent. (various references) | |
German | Quote (proportion, quote, rate), Kontingent (allocation, allotment, contingent, share). (various references) | |
Greek | ποσοστό (percentage, proportion, quantum), αναλογία (analogy, proportion, rate, ratio). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכס" (allocation, amount, lag, norm, quantity, stint, valuation, worth), תוכן (capacity, content, contents, gist, meat, substance). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kvóta (share), kontingens (contingent), arányos rész (prorata portion, prorate). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pagu, kuota, kuantum, jatah (allocation, allotment, entitlement). (various references) | |
Italian | quota (altitude, article, contribution, dimension, dues, fee, height, installment, instalment, portion, price, share). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 割賦 (allotment, hire-purchase, payment in installments), 割"て (allocation, allotment, assignment, rationing), 割" (allocation, allotment, assignment, rationing), 割前 (portion, share), 割り振り (allotment, assignment, rationing), 割り"て (allocation, allotment, assignment, rationing), 割り前 (portion, share), クーロン力 (car horn, Chrysler, Clark, classic, classic car, classic life, classic races, classical, classicism, clerk, client, client server, climax, climber, climbing, climograph, cloud, collider, cook, cookie, cooking, cooking card, cooking school, Coulomb's force, coutouriere, couturier, crime story, crisis, criteria, crouching start, crown, cryoelectronics, cryogenics, cumin, cushion, cushion ball, Klaxon, Kuwait, large size, multi-purpose health facility, pitcher throwing to first base, quake, Quaker, quality, quality paper, quantity, quantize, quark, quarter, quarterback, quarterly, quartet, quartz, quasar, queen, queen size, Queen's English, Queensland, question, question mark, quick, quick motion, quick step, quick turn, quilter, quintet, quinto, quiz, quiz mania, quiz rally, quotation mark, quote, Society of Friends, the Queen Mary), 分け前 (cut, portion, share), 別け前 (cut, portion, share). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かっぷ (allotment, hire-purchase, payment in installments), わっぷ (allotment, hire-purchase, payment in installments), わりまえ (portion, share), わりふり (allotment, assignment, rationing), わりあて (allocation, allotment, assignment, rationing), わけまえ (cut, portion, share), クォータ . (various references) | |
Korean | 당량. (various references) | |
Manx | ronney (beat, category, division, lot, of a division, parcel or claim of land, part, political ward; departmental, portion, share, verse), rheynn [f] (allocation, bill, break up; division, bureau, class, classify, compartment, department, dichotomy, dismemberment, dispense, dissection, distribute, distribution, divide, form, graduate, graduation, mountain ridge, parcel of land, partition, portion, precinct, ration, resolution, resolve, section, segmentation, share, sphere), rheynn (allocation, bill, break up; division, bureau, canto, class, classify, compartment, department, dichotomy, dismemberment, dispense, dissection, distribute, distribution, divide, form, graduate, graduation, mountain ridge, parcel of land, partition, portion, precinct, ration, resolution, resolve, section, segmentation, share, sphere). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kvote, andel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otaquay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quota-parte, quota (dues, installment, instalment, share). (various references) | |
Romanian | normã de lucru, dividend (dividend), cotã-parte (share, shot), cotã (altitude, elevation, lot, quotation, share, sum). (various references) | |
Russian | квота (quotum), доля (allotment, content, cup, dole, fraction, lobe, moiety, portion, quanta, quotum, share, share of). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ograničen broj, kvota. (various references) | |
Spanish | cuota (ante, dues, fee, share, subscription, treat), cupo (room, share). (various references) | |
Swedish | kvot (quotient). (various references) | |
Thai | โควตา, ส่วนแบ่ง (cake, lot, slice), ส่วนที่กำหน"ไว้. (various references) | |
Turkish | pay (allocation, allotment, apportionment, concern, cut, hand, interest, kickback, margin, moiety, numerator, part, portion, proportion, quanta, quantum, share, shareout, slice, snack, take, toll, whack), kota, kontenjan, hisse (allotment, holding, interest, kickback, lot, moiety, percent, portion, quantum, share, shareout, slice), göçmen kontenjanı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | частка (allotment, ante, contingent, crumb, deal, detail, divvy, dose, draught, fraction, lobe, particle, portion, quantity, quotient, shred, slice), квота. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | quota pars. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quota": quotabilities, quotability, quotable, quotably, quotas, quotation, quotations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "quota": nonquota. (additional references) | |
Words containing "quota": misquotation, misquotations. (additional references) | |
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"Quota" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: duotac, kota, qiote, Qoboza, qote, qouta, qoute, quaa, Qualao, quapaw, Quata, quatar, quato, queat, queta, queti, quiota, quiote, Quita, Quitak, quitar, quiti, quitu, quoa, quoad, quoat, quoate, quoda, quode, quofa, quoite, quoma, quona, quora, quorte, quot, quotad, quotae, quotah, quotam, quotar, quotem, quoten, quoter, quotey, quoti, quotia, quoto, quots, quott, quova, qupt, qupte, qute, qutz, ruota. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quota" (pronounced kwō"tu) |
| 3 | -ō" t u | iota, rota. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-q-t-u" | |
-1 letter: auto. | |
-2 letters: oat, out, qat, qua, tao, tau, uta. | |
-3 letters: at, ta, to, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-q-t-u" | |
+1 letter: loquat, quarto, quotas, quotha. | |
+2 letters: aliquot, equator, loquats, quartos. | |
+3 letters: aliquots, aquatone, coequate, cotquean, equation, equators, nonquota, opaquest, paroquet, quaestor, quantong, quatorze, quotable, quotably, torquate. | |
+4 letters: aquatones, coequated, coequates, cotqueans, equations, liquation, loquacity, paroquets, quaestors, quantongs, quartzose, quatorzes, quotation, quotidian, squawroot. | |
+5 letters: acquisitor, coequality, coequating, equational, equatorial, equitation, equivocate, liquations, liquidator, nonaquatic, quaternion, quatrefoil, quixotical, quotations, quotidians, squamation, squawroots, youthquake. | |
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