quota

C1 Topic:People & Society

US /ˈkwoʊ.tə/ UK /ˈkwəʊ.tə/ See IPA manual

Freq #14564

Meanings

1

noun
A fixed amount or share that someone is expected or allowed to have or produce.

The sales team met their monthly quota ahead of schedule.
2

noun
An official limit on the amount of something that can be imported or produced.

The government set a strict quota on foreign car imports.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a fixed amount or share... allocation allotment

Word family

Forms quotas

Derived forms antiquotanonquotaquota-hoppingquotaismquotalessquotalike

Etymology

From Latin quota pars; see Latin quota.

quota pars Latin quota Latin

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Topics

People & Society

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# quota

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈkwoʊ.tə/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈkwəʊ.tə/
**Frequency rank:** 14564

## Meanings
1. A fixed amount or share that someone is expected or allowed to have or produce.
2. An official limit on the amount of something that can be imported or produced.

## Examples
- The sales team met their monthly quota ahead of schedule.
- The government set a strict quota on foreign car imports.

## Derived Forms
- antiquota
- nonquota
- quota-hopping
- quotaism
- quotaless
- quotalike

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: quota pars
- Root: quota

## Etymology
From Latin quota pars; see Latin quota.

## AI Etymology
Quota comes from Latin quota pars; see Latin quota. The historical chain includes quota pars (Latin) and quota (Latin). The surrounding word family includes derived forms such as antiquota, nonquota, quota-hopping, and quotaism. In present use it covers a fixed amount or share that someone is expected or allowed to have or produce and an official limit on the amount of something that can be imported or produced.

## Topics
- People & Society

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