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noun
A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
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When he co-founded Knowledge Networks and conducted polls through Web TV, he used probability sampling as an alternative to quota sampling.
Australia's Olympic team said on its Web site that, "due to quota reallocation," Lee had been selected for the Vancouver Games.
Owing to quota restrictions for Jews at the University of Budapest and to the rise of Nazism, he left Hungary for the United Kingdom in 1939.
But luckily Christianity came along and brought the total up to quota with a convenient trio of theological virtues: faith, hope and charity.
Undersize fish may be discarded due to the minimum landing size regulations, overquota fish can be discarded in a multi-species fishery due to quota exhaustion of one species.
Despite a growth in popularity, squid is classified as an unprotected species and is not currently subject to quota restrictions – but the methods used to catch it can have an impact on other species.
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Critics of affirmative action consider "goals" equivalent to "quotas".
Mr. Gore said he was opposed to quotas.
For a start, the pact refers merely to quotas, not to actual production.
We do not know what the word 'excessive' means, but it seems to lead to quotas.
But he insisted that you can achieve diversity without resorting to quotas.
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