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quota

[kwoh-tuh] / ˈkwoʊ tə /


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Quota and demographic information — including region, race and age — were determined from census and American Community Survey data.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2023

Quota reform, another key demand of IMF critics and activists, would be addressed later, she said.

From Reuters • Oct. 13, 2022

The Aggregate Production Quota is the total amount of each drug that the agency allows to be manufactured — the whole pie, in the words of one DEA official.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2019

The group’s political lobbying also laid the groundwork for the subsequent Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924, as well as the National Origins Act.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Just the year before, the Quota Act had reduced the annual numbers of southern and eastern European immigrants from 783,000 to 155,000.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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