quota

Example Sentences

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IMF members approved a 50% quota increase in December 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Ohio farmer and National Corn Growers Association President Jed Bower called the new quota “a positive move.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

National Indemnity will assume part of Tokio Marine’s portfolio through a quota share agreement.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Money is why Smoke and Stack flee Chicago to hide down South and why Miles Caton’s Sammie wakes up at dawn to pick his daily quota of cotton.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

“We’re about four hundred guys in the school. That means everybody’s got to sell fifty boxes. Usually, the guys have a quota of twenty-five boxes each to sell and the price is a dollar.”

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier