quota.

A specified amount that may, must, or is expected to be supplied or allocated.

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Words that belong together

• production quota
• import quota

On the page

The factory missed its production quota after the power failure.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Singular quota; plural quotas. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: common.