1 [C] the limited number or amount of people or things that is officially allowed:
to introduce a strict import quota on grain * a quota system for accepting refugees
2 [C] an amount of sth that sb expects or needs to have or achieve:
I'm going home now-I've done my quota of work for the day. * to get your full quota of sleep
3 [sing.] (politics) a fixed number of votes that a candidate needs in order to be elected:
He was 76 votes short of the quota.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for quota is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is quota a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, quota is tagged as noun.
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