quota

Example Sentences

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But that’s only correct if the interest rate compensates for Treasury’s cost of funds and the associated risk of IMF lending from the quota.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Berkshire will participate in a quota share with Tokio Marine, absorbing some of the risk in the company’s insurance portfolio.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 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

But now a quota system is in place on Hein's ship and they only get one meal of four small pieces of meat and one bowl of fried vegetables daily.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

“But we’ve already reached our quota for the year,” Scythe Volta was quick to remind him.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman