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Definition

a required or fixed number or share

All the salespeople met their quota for the month.

quota = a required or fixed number or share

The quota for Japanese automobile imports was negotiated.
Voices in the stairway, in the courtyard, said: "There is a quota. The trains must take five thousand Jews every day."
Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed

quota = a required amount

I only stole the money to try to meet her quota.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

quota = a required or fixed number

Read off the names of the boys who have reached or surpassed their quota.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War

quota = a required number

I got to kill eight more Cong before I get my quota.
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels

quota = a fixed number or share

Mustering my final quota of strength, I crawled on my arms, dragging useless legs behind me.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts telegraphed the President, "The quota of troops required of Massachusetts is ready.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
They have their orders and their quotas to fill, just as in a factory.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
The quota for Chinese, however, is very low, and the number who want to get in is beyond count.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
Such research suggests that quotas for local female leaders may be worthwhile, because they overcome the initial hurdle that blocks women candidates.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
So many quota spots to fill with people from Pakistan and Fresno, right?
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Is there a quota you have to meet?
Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory
The quota is all used up.
Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
Point two: To ensure that we meet these targets, I will use my Presidential authority to set import quotas.
Jimmy Carter -- A Crisis of Confidence
Your share, your quota, is eighty.
Mal Peet -- Tamar
Those who did not choose to leave voluntarily would bescheduled for resettlement in weekly quotas.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
She told one of the other companions that she'd made over her quota and was calling it a night.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
Such as, being largely ignored by the Capitol as long as we produce our coal quotas.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
Except, alas, he has killed his quota for the season.
John Gardner -- Grendel

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