A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. / A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.

plural of quota

(within the EC) The circumvention of a trade quota by registering a business (or a fishing vessel) in a foreign country in order to benefit from its quota

(slang, film, historical) A typically low-cost, low-quality film commissioned to satisfy the quota requirements of the Cinematograph Films Act 1927.

plural of quota quickie

A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech. / A price that has been quoted for buying or selling. / The act of setting a price.

(UK) One of a pair of quotation marks used to denote a quotation in writing. The symbol used at the beginning of the quotation ("opening quotation mark") is usually “ ("open inverted commas") or ‘ ("open inverted comma"), and the symbol at the end ("closing quotation mark") is ” ("close inverted commas") or ’ ("close inverted comma").

A system of quotation in which terminal punctuation marks are enclosed within a quotation only if the sense of the punctuation is part of the original material being quoted.

An utterance that describes what somebody said, but without repeating their exact words. / (numismatics, business) A rate in foreign currency.

One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.