QUOTAS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

quotas

noun

plural of quota

as in shares

something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group you need to meet your sales quota, or you'll be put on probation

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Recent Examples of quotas Employees were given quotas to investigate 40 subjects a day, which is a rate of roughly 12 minutes per subject. — Madeleine May, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 Alongside Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, Netflix has lodged an appeal with France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’État, challenging new sub-quotas for investment in documentaries and animation. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026 Apple, Netflix and the other streamers would prefer quotas not to exist. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026 The country’s current immigration policies are controlled by people who believe that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which ended exclusionary quotas against non-European immigrants including South Asians, needs to be rolled back. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026 Territories needed to be assigned, quotas had to be set, and compensation needed to be calculated accurately and paid on time. — Arnab Mishra, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Responses with the error were discarded, as were voters who had already been attempted, and quotas were reset. — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026 Botswana has issued annual quotas to hunt between 200 and more than 400 elephants recently, depending on the year. — Sello Motseta, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Under the terms of its settlement agreement, if Paramount falls short of its annual quotas, it’ll be fined $30 million per film, 90% of which will be paid out to film workers and 10% to the National Association of Attorneys General. — Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Investors can buy and sell shares of the fund on the stock exchange, rather than having to secure a direct stake in those businesses.

— Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Rollins — The pest control company saw shares fall more than 5% after third-quarter results missed the Street's estimates.

— Darla Mercado, CFP®,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of shares

Noun

The full terms of the settlement weren’t immediately available, but an agenda item for Tuesday’s Fort Worth City Council meeting said Fort Worth will release portions of its ETJ and that Willow Park will pay the city $500,000.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026
Adjacent portions are owned by Xcel Energy and Union Pacific Railroad.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of portions

Noun

Asked for prices, a Ford spokesperson said the company isn’t sharing exact numbers yet, but gave percentages against its first-generation hardware instead.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
Bulk purchases, in particular, aren’t automatically cheaper, which is why unit-price comparison is more reliable than headline percentages off.

— Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of percentages

Noun

The proportions remain practical, and the overall design avoids some of the visual excesses found elsewhere in the segment.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
But Lee, who has been known to gut his characters in the final stretch, doesn’t raise the body count to Bongian proportions.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of proportions

Noun

They were showered with expensive clothes, spa treatments, and drugs, and given weekly allowances ranging from $150 to $200.

— Samantha Bergeson, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
The government also plans to double child allowances, whose basic rate is around $37 monthly for a one-child family and has been unchanged since 2008.

— Justin Spike, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of allowances

Noun

The total allotments to the three downstream states could be cut by as much as 40% through 2036, menacing their economies and communities.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
These allotments seemed more than reasonable given the annual water flow at the time.

— Story Hinckley, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2026

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