{
    "term": "quota",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a limited number or amount of people or things that is officially allowed",
            "sensetop": "quota (on something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to introduce a strict import quota on grain"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many countries are still exceeding their quotas."
                },
                {
                    "text": "national quotas on imports of cars"
                },
                {
                    "text": "quotas for oil production"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the introduction of EU milk quotas"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["full", "strict", "annual"],
                "verb + quota": ["allocate", "establish", "impose"],
                "quota + noun": ["system"],
                "preposition": ["quota for", "quota on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an amount of something that somebody expects or needs to have or achieve",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm going home now—I've done my quota of work for the day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to get your full quota of sleep"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Members of the military forces must fulfil a daily quota of work in the fields."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The show is good fun and yields its full quota of laughs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He never takes his full quota of holidays."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had to increase our output to fill the quota by the end of the year."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a fixed number of votes that a candidate needs in order to be elected",
            "labels": "(politics)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was 76 votes short of the quota."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkwəʊtə/",
                "audio": "qu/quota/quota__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkwəʊtə/",
                "audio": "qu/quota/quota__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin quota (pars) ‘how great (a part)’, feminine of quotus, from quot ‘how many’."
}