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quota
noun as in portion allotted to something
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He eliminated internal competition at the company by assigning each salesperson a specific geographic territory, and instituted sales quotas and contests.
But federal agents, under pressure to meet arrest quotas, have vastly widened their net, targeting public-facing workplaces that pay low wages.
From her shell-shocked expression, I wonder if she’s also hit her quota of strange creatures for the day.
“Our quota for Colored mathematicians has already been filled this year.”
What started with students protesting against a quota system for government jobs eventually turned into broader demonstrations calling for an end to Hasina’s authoritarian rule.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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