HOW TO PRONOUNCE
quota
/ˈkwoʊ.tə/
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What does quota mean?
noun
- A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
- A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.
- A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkwoʊ.tə/
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The province returns its quota of members every four years to the lower and upper houses of the imperial parliament.
Why do they not dissolve it themselves,—the union between themselves and the State,—and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury?
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For many positions in the business world a hypothetical bogy should be created after the style of the quota referred to above.
Perhaps some of those who met him in Boston and elsewhere will some day contribute their quota to the bright record of his life.
Some of the engines designed by Watt--the prototypes of the powerful condensing engines of the present day--were still performing their daily quota of work.