Word Finder - quota

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A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

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A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.

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A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.

You've used up your quota of thank you's.

He waited, as if she'd reveal enough dirt to make his monthly quota then added, They'll probably suspend your license.

By the seizure and sale of Church lands, by th sale of state railways, by economy to the bone and on onc supreme occasion by an appeal to taxpayers to advance a years quota of the land-tax, he had met the most pressing engagements of that troublous period.

The records of the tribute are preserved in the so-called quota lists, which give the names of the cities and the proportion, one-sixtieth, of their several tributes, which was paid to Athena.

This quota is fixed for a period of years, and generally coincides with the duration of the customs and commercial treaty.

It was then decided that from 1897 to July 1907 the quota should be 66 2/3% for Austria, and 33 1/3% for Hungary.

The state furnished a full quota for the Continental army, but the divided sentiment of the people is shown by the fact that six battalions of loyalists were also organized.

Land is not so heavily burdened by the government quota as by the additional centimes imposed by the provincial and communal authorities.

In 1894 the quota, including the additional tenth, was raised to the uniform level of 20%.

It had also furnished its due quota of heretics, although no one so conspicuous as Wycliffe or Huss.

At first it was only levied at irregular intervals; afterwards, in 378 B.C., it became a permanent tax based on elaborate valuation under which the richer members paid on a larger quota of their capital; in the case of the wealthiest class the taxable quota was taken as one-fifth, smaller fractions being adopted for those belonging to the other divisions.

The commission charged with the delimitation of constituencies is permitted to vary the quota as much as 15% either way.

Buckingham (1804-1875), one of the ablest and most zealous of the " war-governors," and afterwards, from 1869 until his death, a member of the United States Senate, issued a call for volunteers in April 1861; and soon 54 companies, more than five times the state's quota, were organized.

Both parties put themselves in the wrong, the province by refusing its quota to the federal war-sheet, the generality by dealing with individual towns instead of with the states of the province.

Originally the Irish and the Germans furnished the greater quota.

When a contribution is required from county rate, the county council assess the amount payable by each parish according to the basis previously made, and send their precept to the guardians of the unions comprising the several parishes in the county, the guardians in their turn requiring the overseers of each parish to provide the necessary quota of that parish out of the poor rate, and the sum thus raised goes into the county fund.

In 1869 the main quota to the impost was increased by one-tenth, in addition to the extra two-tenths previously imposed in 1866.

From 1871 to 1894 it was assessed at 13.20% of taxable income, this quota being formed of 12% main quota and 1.20% as an additional tenth.

Louis Federal Reserve district was the first to subscribe its quota.

Partnership X3 had been set up as a completely separate business which had purchased sheep and suckler cow quota.

It assigns its quota of taxes (contingent) to each arrondissement, authorizes the sale, purchase or exchange of departmental property, superintends the management thereof, authorizes the construction of new roads, railways or canals, and advises on matters of local interest.

In addition, the communes have a right to levy a, surtax not exceeding 50% of the quota levied by the state upon lands and buildings; a family tax, or fuocatico, upon the total incomes of families, which, for fiscal purposes, are divided into various categories; a tax based upon the rent-value of houses, and other taxes upon cattle, horses, dogs, carriages and servants; also on licences for shopkeepers, hotel and restaurant keepers, &c.; on the slaughter of animals, stamp duties, one-half of the tax on bicycles, &c. Occasional sources of interest are found in the sale of communal property, the realization of communal credits, and the contraction of debt.

Many Jews have been members of the Reichsrath, some have risen to the rank of general in the army, and Austrian Jews have contributed their quota to learning, the arts and literature.

In the Spanish-American War of 1898 Massachusetts furnished 11,780 soldiers and sailors, though her quota was but 7388; supplementing from her own treasury the pay accorded them by the national government.

A source of abundant discord was opened by the provision that each state should contribute its quota to the Federal revenues.

In 1839 on the final dissolution of the kingdom of the Netherlands, Holland gave definite form to this right by fixing the toll, and by obtaining the assent of the powers to the arrangement which fettered the trade of Antwerp. In 1863 after long negotiations Belgium bought up this right - each of the powers interested in the trade contributing its quota - and the navigation of the Scheldt was then declared free.

One of his wisest and most praiseworthy acts was the organization of the famous "Pennsylvania Reserves," by means of which the state was always able to fill at once its required quota after each successive call.

All the great abbeys of England sent their quota.

The governor of Arkansas curtly refused its quota.

The majority of this body consisted of Unionists, but the Convention passed the ordinance of secession when the Federal government (April 17) called upon the state to supply its quota of armed men to suppress "insurrection" in the lower Southern states.

The seats allotted to each province are determined by its number of European male adults as ascertained by a quinquennial census, the quota for a constituency being obtained by dividing the total number of such adults in the Union as ascertained at the 1904 census by the number of members at the establishment of the Union.

The council appoint a committee called a county rate committee, who from time to time prepare a basis or standard for county rate, that is to say, they fix the amount at which each parish in the county shall contribute its quota to the county rate.

Surviving records show that in assessments of wool to the king, Bedfordshire always provided its full quota.

Governor Jackson refused point-blank to contribute the quota of troops from Missouri called for by President Lincoln.

Nevertheless Kansas furnished proportionally a very large quota of men to the Union armies.

In the last days of his term he apparently had such an intention, but during the year 1860 the Southern States actually received less than their full quota of arms. After the secession of Virginia he was commissioned a brigadier-general in the Confederate service.

I assume you influenced some sweet thing after making her commission quota for the month.

This is known as your quota allocation and it is used to control the amount of disk space that you have available.

Quality - Only open Apis are utilized in Quota Server.

This also brings me to your closing comment about the '37 per cent decrease in ESRC quota awards ', which is also incorrect.

Without warning, the Ministry had dramatically lowered the fishing quota to such an extent that our fishermen were facing ruin.

The quota quickies were a place where you learned your craft, really, weren't they?

The course has been allocated a quota of studentships by the EPSRC.

Every user has been allotted a quota depending on their course requirements.

The total size of all mail messages stored on the server must not exceed the quota.

Seats would be allocated by dividing the number of votes cast for a party by the electoral quota.

In October there were queues outside the Hilda Quick hide most days, with a strict time quota for the watchers.

Why does the system complain I'm over quota when " quota -v " claims I have no quota imposed?

And he claimed one serious defect of the plan was that the haddock quota may never be caught.

The farm is being offered with or without its milk quota on an initial 10 year Farm Business Tenancy.