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quota
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quota noun allocation, allotment, allowance, appropriation, assignment, check, circumscription, constraint, containment, contingent, control, curb, extent, inhibition, limit, limitation, measure, number, percentage, portion, proportion, quantity, quantum, ratio, regulation, restraint, restriction, share, suppression
Associated concepts: quota system, racial quota

QUOTA. That part which each one is to bear of some expense; as, his quota of this debt; that is, his proportion of such debt.
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It was almost as bad as the Dewey over Truman fiasco 60 years earlier, a result that led survey organizations like Gallup both to move from quota sampling to probability selection and to extend polling to later in the campaign.
How the pollsters got it so wrong by Jones, Terry / St. Louis Journalism Review
We used a quota sampling strategy to select informants of different age and sex, from rural and urban areas.
Local knowledge and management of the royal fern (Osmunda regalis L.) ... by Molina, Maria; Reyes-Garcia, Victoria; Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel / American Fern Journal
Participants: One hundred children without CP between 7 and 15 years old were recruited by quota sampling, with a minimum of 10 children in each year of age.
Physiological cost index in cerebral palsy: its role in evaluating ... by Whitaker, David / New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy
 
 
 
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