0 a fixed, limited amount or number that is officially allowed:
The country now has a quota on immigration.
figurative The class contains the usual quota (= number) of troublemakers.
1 a number, amount, or share that is officially allowed or necessary:
2 a fixed limit on the amount of something that someone is allowed to have or is expected to do:
an annual/monthly/daily quota The annual quota of 140,000 green cards is far lower than the demand.
impose/introduce/set a quota This fiscal year, Congress set a quota of 65,000 visas.
fill/meet/reach a quota Under the plan, private companies are legally required to fill a 3% quota with young employees.
lift/reduce/raise a quota Many agricultural quotas will be lifted.
production quotas
However, the population dwindled and, in 1952, the quota was reduced.
Where cost and convenience were considerations, judgmental or purposive sampling was adopted as well as quota sampling.
Below it is considered how alterations in the discount factor and the way quotas are allocated between agents will change the results obtained above.
Households were selected using a random process, and those interviewed by gender and age quotas.
When the level of refillables would fall below the quota, mandatory deposits on drink containers had to be introduced.
The new hierarchy and the setting of quotas would have helped manage and control the size of the lower-level personnel.
The innovation lies in the fixation of quotas for this level of personnel.
In these three categories, the reserved quota was nowhere near the prescribed 20 per cent.
