How to Use quota in a Sentence

quota

noun
Definition of quotanext
Synonyms for quotanext
  • The company has imposed quotas on hiring.
  • The agency imposes strict fishing quotas.
  • The department set new sales quotas in January.
  • He lost his driver's license because he exceeded the quota of traffic violations.
  • My cuteness quota has been filled for the day, that's for sure.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 20 July 2023
  • At his last factory, the daily quota went up to 36 RVs a day.
    — Binghui Huang, IndyStar, 19 Oct. 2022
  • That comes at the expense of African members who were asked to give up part of their unused quota.
    — Ben Bartenstein, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2023
  • The committee elected the status quo for the hunting quota in the northern herd.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
  • The season runs from April until June, or until quotas are met.
    — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Prices of grain in both countries have dropped since the EU scrapped duties and quotas on Ukrainian grain imports last year.
    — Thomas Grove, wsj.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The rule allows plug-in hybrids with at least 50 miles of all-electric range to account for up to 20% of each model year’s quota.
    — Victoria Stavish, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Make pit stops at the Reims Cathedral and the Palace of Tau to fulfill your cultural quota before heading to the wineries.
    — Elly Leavitt, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This year’s quota is much larger, at 5.8 million pounds; that’s more than five times the size of last year’s harvest level.
    — Kirsten Dobroth, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Soria said the clinic bases the number of urine screenings for drugs on each patient's needs rather than any quota.
    — The Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2022
  • These quotas remained in place for over a decade, until the Immigration Act of 1965.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • More than 600 anglers registered for a chance to catch this year's quota of six lake sturgeon.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 7 Feb. 2023
  • China cut its rare earths export quota in 2010 amid tensions with the United States.
    — Laura He, CNN, 4 July 2023
  • The study determined that sales coaching had the greatest impact on win rates and sales quota retention over the past five years.
    — Patrick Welch, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Red king and snow crab quota shares — offering the rights to claim part of the annual harvest — were once valuable assets.
    — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Although many of the firms on the Ibex-35 benchmark meet the quota or are relatively close to it, several also fall short.
    — Rodrigo Orihuela, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The goal is to create meaningful connections, not hit a quota.
    — Ginny Hogan, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • To preserve the whale population, the village has a quota of four bowhead whales per year, Brower said.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Is a worker completing a certain number of tasks per day, hitting a phone call quota, or putting in long hours at the office?
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • America should be getting that as soon as the quotas are de-volunteered.
    — Pete Lyons, Car and Driver, 26 Mar. 2023
  • In addition, some apps—not all, but some—are programmed to use less of your data quota when this option is enabled.
    — Justin Pot, Popular Science, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The union representing the nation’s immigration judges said that quota came at the expense of due process.
    — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
  • Black bear hunters in Wisconsin will see slight increases in the number of licenses available and the kill quota for the 2023 season.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2023
  • When the first such program filled its quota of 1,800 passports, the government simply launched a second one, slightly tweaked.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Rahim said he was written up for not meeting his quota and then put on a performance improvement plan.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The duties are the legacy of a decades-long trade dispute over the structure of Canada's timber sector that could not be resolved when a quota agreement expired in 2015.
    — Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023

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