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1. Predetermined goal in a sales program established as a total dollar amount, as a percentage of increase over sales from a previous time, or in quantities of merchandise sold.

2. Predetermined goal in a media plan established in terms of money to be spent, gross rating points to be achieved, or number of insertions and spots to be bought.

3. see quota sample.

noun

That which is allotted: allocation, allotment, allowance, dole, lot, measure, part, portion, quantum, ration, share, split. Informal cut. Slang divvy. See collect/distribute.

A fixed level indicating the maximum amount of imported goods or persons which the state will allow in—import quota—or out—export quota—in a given period of time. It may also refer to limits on production in an economy.

In the context of international trade, this is a limit put on the amount of a specific good that can be imported.

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Quotas are used to prevent other countries from "dumping."

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The portion of a whole that belongs to one person. In agriculture it usually refers to a share of a market, e.g. Australia's quota of the USA's beef market.

• q. sampling — see quota sampling.

• Commerce and Trade - quota: fixed limit, esp. government limit on imports and exports
• Spending, Receiving, and Possessing Wealth - quota: one’s proportional share of wealth or pay

Look up quota in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Quota.

Contents 1 Affirmative action 2 Commerce 3 Computing 4 Electoral systems 5 Fishing 6 Military 7 Statistics 8 Other

Quotal may refer to: numerical goals

Affirmative action

• Racial quotal
• Reservation in India
• Quotals in Pakistan

Commerce

• Import quota, a type of trade restriction
• Poundage quota, a quantitative limit on the amount of a commodity that can be marketed
• Production quota, a numerical goal for the production of a good
• Sales quota, a minimum sales goal for a set time span
• Tariff-rate quota, a type of trade restriction

Computing

• Bandwidth cap, the quota for upload or download of data
• Disk quota

Electoral systems

• Droop quotal
• Election threshold
• Hagenbach-Bischoff quota
• Hare quota
• Imperiali quota

Fishing

• Catch share
• Individual fishing quota

Military

• Quota System (Royal Navy)

Statistics

• Quota sampling

Other

• Jewish quota, a limit on the number of Jews to be employed or admitted
• Quota share, distribution of a quota amongst individual entities
• Screen quotas, policy that enforces a minimum number of domestic films in the theater
• Ticket quota, target outputs for police forces

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kvota, antal, kontingent

Nederlands (Dutch)
quota, contingent, studentenstop

Français (French)
n. - (gén, Comm, EC) quota, part, quote-part

Deutsch (German)
n. - Quote, Kontingent, Zulassungsbeschränkung, maximale Einwanderungsquote

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανάλογο μερίδιο, μερίδα, ποσοστό, (αριθμητική) αναλογία, δικαιούμενο ποσοστό

Italiano (Italian)
quota, contingente, aliquota

Português (Portuguese)
n. - quota (f)

Русский (Russian)
квота

Español (Spanish)
n. - cuota, contingente, cupo, numerus clausus

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kvot, fördelningskvot, andel, kontingent, tilldelning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
配额, 限额

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 配額, 限額

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 몫, 배당, 할당액

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 分け前, 定数, 定員, 割り当て
v. - 割り当てる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كوتا, حصه نسبيه, كميه محددة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מכסה, כמות מוגבלת‬