quota

Meaning of quota

noun
  1. a fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute.
    the county is falling short of its quota of blood donations

early 17th century: from medieval Latin quota (pars) ‘how great (a part)’, feminine of quotus, from quot ‘how many’.

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Hyphenation of quota

quota

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • quota is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

quota synonyms

Meaning an amount of a resource assigned to a particular recipient:

allocation

Meaning a part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people, or to which a number of people contribute:

share

Meaning the amount of something that is permitted, especially within a set of regulations or for a specified purpose:

allowance

Meaning a point or level beyond which something does not or may not extend or pass:

limit

Meaning a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime:

ration

Meaning a part of something divided between two or more people; a share:

portion

Meaning the action or result of apportioning something:

apportionment

Meaning a task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study:

assignment

Meaning exemption from a rule or usual requirement:

dispensation

Meaning a portion or share of something:

slice

Meaning a rate, number, or amount in each hundred:

percentage

Meaning an instruction, command, or role given to a person or group:

commission

Meaning a standard quantity or amount:

measure

Meaning a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole:

proportion

Meaning an amount or section which, when combined with others, makes up the whole of something:

part

Meaning a financial share:

piece

Meaning a numerical quantity that is not a whole number (e.g. 1/2, 0.5):

fraction

Meaning the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated:

division

Meaning the action of subdividing or being subdivided:

subdivision

Meaning a small piece, part, or quantity of something:

bit

Meaning a quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent:

amount

Meaning a quantity or amount:

number

Meaning the area of variation between upper and lower limits on a particular scale:

range

Meaning the amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement:

quantity

Meaning a share of the profits from something:

cut

Meaning a specified share of or contribution to something:

whack

Translation of quota

Words that rhyme with quota

nonquota

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