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.
  • So charging fees rather than quotas might be a good idea.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Will adding head count enable reps to meet quota?
    — Ari Widlansky, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • My cuteness quota has been filled for the day, that's for sure.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 20 July 2023
  • The leap was due in part to an increase in the harvest quota.
    — Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Are tariff rate quotas coming back in a big way?
    — Tobias Burns, The Hill, 2 July 2025
  • Xu said 86% of the quota handed down last year has been used.
    — Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2022
  • It’s been proven in other sports that quota systems are very flawed.
    — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
  • But the film does, of course, need to feed on its quota of dark disaster.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • He was fired from one firm in his 30s for not meeting sales quotas.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
  • No visa interviews, no green cards, no quotas.
    — Cheryl Rogers, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025
  • This is a strategy known as quotas.
    — Nadia Edwards-Dashti, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The quotas are set each year by the Swiss government.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Unlike The Wave, there’s no day-use quota.
    — Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
  • South Korea is playing catchup, and does not yet have such a visa quota.
    — Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The board could also extend the current quota for three years.
    — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Hunters must call each evening to determine if the quota has been met before the next day's hunt.
    — Arkansas Online, 13 May 2025
  • Some say the quotas can be dangerous for civilians, too.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 30 May 2026
  • The quota for fin whales was dropped to zero in 1976, the study says.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 July 2022
  • Argentina's quota law is thought to be the first of its kind in the world, says Boris.
    — Charles Newbery, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Closes early if quota is reached.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Maine fishermen are about 80% of the way through this year’s elver quota.
    — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 2 May 2024
  • Everybody else trying to reach a quota too.
    — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In just a few weeks, shippers booked out all of the 7 million-ton quota set through June.
    — Time, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Free-tier users will receive limited free quotas.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Due to its small size, Yuchi Refuge has all quota hunts, so a hunter will have to apply for those.
    — Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2020
  • 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

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