[
UK
/kwˈəʊtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈkwoʊtə/ ]
[ US /ˈkwoʊtə/ ]
NOUN
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a prescribed number
all the salesmen met their quota for the month - a proportional share assigned to each participant
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a limitation on imports
the quota for Japanese imports was negotiated
How To Use quota In A Sentence
- Because the joint ventures pay very low wages, and do not have to pay GST and local taxes, they are able to pay for quota at a level that is unsustainable or uneconomic for our local fishermen.
- During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
- He has received several teaching awards, as well as the unprecedented award of being ‘the most quotable professor’ by MathSoc.
- The distich caused discussion regarding the quantity of "hic", but the pope defended the prosody of Voltaire who confirmed his opinion by a quotation from Virgil which he said ought to be the epitaph of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- The restriction of annual export quota is deleted.
- I quote it at length, with O'Reilly's rather selective quotation in boldface.
- Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are almost automatically credited to Churchill.
- Hence the quotation from ‘Shepherd's Hey ’, which is skilfully counterpointed with the ‘Enigma’ theme in bar 25.
- The articles incorporated substantial sections of the Minute both in direct quotation and in paraphrase.
- Conclusion: Gracefully exit your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on some memorable thought, perhaps a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action.