Quota is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUOTA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Latin) a proportional share, a part assigned
• a fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute
• a limited quantity of a particular product which under official controls can be produced, exported, or imported
• a fixed minimum or maximum number of a particular group of people allowed to do something, such as immigrants to enter a country, workers to undertake a job, or students to enrol for a course
• (in a system of proportional representation) the minimum number of votes required to elect a candidate.
• (in the Anglican Church) the proportion of the funds of a parish contributed to the finances of the diocese.
• share that is due from, due to, or allocated to a group or person
• A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
• a prescribed number
• a proportional share assigned to each participant
• a limitation on imports
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a proportional part or share

Words related to QUOTA

quotas15 quotum17

Words that contain QUOTA

quotas15 nonquota17 quotable19 quotably22 quotation18 quotative21 quotations19 quotatious19 quotatives22 unquotable21 quotability25 misquotation23 quotableness23 misquotations24 quotabilities24 quotablenesses25

How to use QUOTA in a sentence

• All classes of society furnished their quota to the colors for service in Belgium and France.
• He was raising levies of Roman citizens, among the Lucani and Brutii, by his lieutenants, and exacting a certain quota of horse and foot from the states of Sicily.
• With every citizen contributing a quota of personal experience, his story was rehearsed from the day of his arrival to the day of his departure.
• There were dark shadows under his gray eyes which betrayed that he was not getting the quota of sleep that healthy youth demands.
• The dungeons were full, and dungeon by dungeon, in order of dungeons, shouted out its quota to the roll-call.
• At last a point is reached when twelve candidates have a quota.
• Every house had its quota of visitors, who lounged in the doorways and eyed us with mixed insolence and curiosity.
• By such a procedure he was able to support a full quota of mariners on board his squadron, and procured to himself the prompt and enthusiastic service of his troops.
• But during the hot months the capital and the plains cities to the eastward send their quota of summer idlers and the house fills to its capacity.
• I scarcely know, indeed, though with a mighty respectable quota of experimentality myself, how to describe what followed.
• Every town and every village, every hamlet and every farm had its quota of refugees.
• It attracted much attention and a fair quota of praise.
• Thirty wine casks of capacious size were prepared, and in each was placed instead of its quota of wine a stalwart warrior, fully armed with sword, shield, helmet, and cuirass.
• Afterward, as Major-General Patterson collected his Pennsylvania quota, he turned it toward that point as a probable field of operations.
• Meanwhile Chance lay gravely watching his master until Gentle Annie had been relieved of the full and creamy quota of her donation to the maintenance of the household.
• This would decrease the south of Europe quota, and might increase that from northern Europe.
• But, on the other hand, the 92nd Division had been drawn from every possible corner of the United States where a quota might be raised.
• Welles will accept, as a part of the quota, such vessels as may have been purchased by Mr.
• The whole of the cities of the plains had sent in their quota, and the bright banners of the chiefs and nobles waved gaily over the snowy array of their followers.
• Over Cincinnati, too, a dense cloud of smoke usually hangs, every chimney contributing its quota to the mass.
• Every apartment in the house held its quota of wounded, and down below the busy surgeons had transformed the parlor into an operating room.
• Every general change of religious or political ideas bears its quota of crimes.
• The white regiments of the regular army had their quota of Irish, as had most of the volunteers.
• To Tyre on the Great Sea he had gone, to arrange for the landing of a new quota of troops from Brundisium.
• A few were accordingly sent in, and the rest promised in a few days, being the quota due from more distant clans.
• Everybody has heard how the State of New Jersey, along the railroad line, stood through the evening and the night to shout their quota of good wishes.
• But she was now called upon to furnish her quota of regiments for the Federal army.
• Others came, still others till the quota of a full score had arrived.
• Leslie Wood of Athabasca Landing adds her quota to the Tales of a Wayside Inn.
• The machine must, of course, deliver its quota to enable succeeding machines to be kept in practically constant work.
• Beginning with the employment of a few dozen women, twenty other towns took up the same industry, and furnish their quota of the general return.

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