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quota

noun as in portion allotted to something

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Under the existing quota model, private prisons are driven to fill as many beds with detainees as possible — there's hardly any financial incentive to make the quality of their stay more tolerable.

From Salon

Significantly, the quota of PGA Tour cards going to the leading 10 DP World Tour players, not already exempt, will be unaltered under the plans revealed last week.

From BBC

And if one super PAC has hit its quota for a certain channel, another one hops in.

From Slate

They said she was stupid and basically a "DEI" or "affirmative action" or "quota" hire, "the enemy within" to be vanquished.

From Salon

A June order initially restricted asylum-seeking entries to a quota of just 2,500 crossings per day and closed the border altogether after certain thresholds were reached.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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