Definitions for quota

quota quo·ta

Spelling: [kwoh-tuh]
IPA: /ˈkwoʊ tə/

Quota is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in quota (aoqtu).

Definitions for quota

noun

  1. the share or proportional part of a total that is required from, or is due or belongs to, a particular district, state, person, group, etc.
  2. a proportional part or share of a fixed total amount or quantity.
  3. the number or percentage of persons of a specified kind permitted to enroll in a college, join a club, immigrate to a country, etc.

Origin of quota

1660-70; Medieval Latin, short for Latin quota pars how great a part?

Examples for quota

To this general excitement the strange case of Mr. Le Moyne had added its quota.

However, just a few years later, the decision swung back around with the quota being raised to 121 days.

I am fighting that quota because I am an advocate of competition.

And to get that blood every Apexan must yield his quota in the temple.

Every wood and field has its quota, and no place so barren but it has some bird to visit it.

He suddenly realized that he had exceeded his quota of questions, and that he could get into trouble.

Fugelsang quipped: “Comics are bitter misogynist self-loathing drunks, and Congress already has already hit their quota of those.”

In July, parliament lowered its quota for female lawmakers on provincial councils from 25 percent to 20 percent.

Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.

In the Fourth ward, where he lives, there never was a man drafted to fill its quota.

Word Value for quota
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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