Synonym: allotment, percentage, proportion, ratio, share. Similar words: quote, misquote, quotidian, duotone, quorum, liquor, status quo, quid pro quo. Meaning: ['kwəʊtə] n. 1. a prescribed number 2. a proportional share assigned to each participant 3. a limitation on imports.
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(61) This year's quota is 25,400, composed of 23,400 pups and 2,000 adult males.
(62) There was, however, no quota on the number of warrants issued to the security services.
(63) Since 1944, for example, we have had a quota system which has never been effectively operated under Governments of either party.
(64) Quota sampling is like stratified sampling, but with an important variation.
(65) The recorded catch has been within the quota for many years.
(66) But the official said the quota had been determined on the basis of current banana consumption.
(67) Even the luggage racks contained their quota of sailors, soldiers, or airmen.
(68) But the champions had already filled their overseas quota with Andrew Farrar.
(69) Forty-five percent of their votes went to Faulkner which ensured his election with more than a quota of votes as fifth member.
(70) And will the plant achieve its quota of employees with disabilities? I doubt it. 2.
(71) The traffic policemen used the Puerto Rican neighborhood to dump their quota of tickets.
(72) The fact remains that because of election by constituency quota the odds are heavily against fair representation for a small party.
(73) The Newfoundland cod population has crashed before, in the 1970s, but recovered somewhat under a quota system during the 1980s.
(74) The industry would seek compensation from the Government for the effects of the quota cuts, Mr Allan said.
(75) They are the votes which, usually making the greatest contribution to a successful candidate's quota, are the most influential.
(76) When Sheila Sheffield fails to achieve her quota for the quarter, he helps Sheila discover the reasons.
(77) It has set a total quota for all pelagic species of just 60,000 tonnes for 1991.
(78) Respondent, echoing the courts below, labels it a racial quota.
(79) By 1961 internal tariff barriers had been substantially reduced and quota restrictions on industrial products had been largely eliminated.
(80) However, the party's representation flounders when it is freed from the rigours of the quota system.
(81) That objective was in keeping with the aims of the quota system.
(82) Members of the military forces must also fulfil a quota of work in the fields.
(83) The quota system did it; there was a milk glut.
(84) And there was no escaping the fact that he had more than his fair quota of attraction.
(85) Applications had vastly exceeded the quota within a few days[sentencedict.com/quota.html], reports said.
(86) Please verify that there is sufficient disk quota and privilege to write to a file in the supplied working directory.
(87) Because it can be sure of filling at least one quota, a big party can be sure of winning at least one seat.
(88) Textiles were excluded and there was no significant increases in the sugar quota to make up for cuts in recent years.
(89) Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota.
(90) Quota sampling is widely used in market research as it is cost-effective.
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