How to Use quota in a Sentence

quota

noun

• The company has imposed quotas on hiring.
• The agency imposes strict fishing quotas.
• The department set new sales quotas in January.
• He lost his driver's license because he exceeded the quota of traffic violations.
• Xu said 86% of the quota handed down last year has been used.
  — Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2022
• The mission becomes about more than sales quotas, launch dates or paychecks.
  — Jeffrey Russell, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• But most clubs have a roster quota for United States imports.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• The Watchdog revealed emails from multiple supervisors to patrol officers that appeared to show a quota system in place.
  — Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2022
• Crabbers also have taken 68% of their 1 million-pound Bering Sea bairdi Tanner quota.
  — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2022
• The Society believes the responsible thing for DNR to do is set the seasonal quota to zero.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Sep. 2024
• Some subcontractors couldn’t meet their output quotas, creating huge production logjams when crucial parts weren’t available in the necessary sequence.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
• The quota for fin whales was dropped to zero in 1976, the study says.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 July 2022
• My cuteness quota has been filled for the day, that's for sure.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 20 July 2023
• Maine fishermen are about 80% of the way through this year’s elver quota.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• At his last factory, the daily quota went up to 36 RVs a day.
  — Binghui Huang, IndyStar, 19 Oct. 2022
• Many put the cap on Denver’s number of wins in the series at one, and the Nuggets have already hit that quota.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• That comes at the expense of African members who were asked to give up part of their unused quota.
  — Ben Bartenstein, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2023
• The board could also extend the current quota for three years.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
• The can has just begun to spit them into the bar, but the ocean is still full of salmon and the quota was only half-done by last Sunday.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
• The committee elected the status quo for the hunting quota in the northern herd.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
• For them, the quota issue was merely the tip of an iceberg, a symbol of a system stacked against them.
  — Ali Riaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024
• Talibés are forced to beg for money each day, and if their quota is not filled, they can be beaten and starved.
  — Guy Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2022
• Most times, the tests run by QA engineers are completed as if there is a quota of tests to be met.
  — Margarita Simonova, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• The season runs from April until June, or until quotas are met.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2023
• Prices of grain in both countries have dropped since the EU scrapped duties and quotas on Ukrainian grain imports last year.
  — Thomas Grove, wsj.com, 16 Apr. 2023
• The rule allows plug-in hybrids with at least 50 miles of all-electric range to account for up to 20% of each model year’s quota.
  — Victoria Stavish, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
• Reflective of last year's drop in kill, the statewide antlerless quota is 4% lower than last year.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2022
• Make pit stops at the Reims Cathedral and the Palace of Tau to fulfill your cultural quota before heading to the wineries.
  — Elly Leavitt, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2023
• This year’s quota is much larger, at 5.8 million pounds; that’s more than five times the size of last year’s harvest level.
  — Kirsten Dobroth, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2023
• Soria said the clinic bases the number of urine screenings for drugs on each patient's needs rather than any quota.
  — The Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024