What is another word for quotas?

Pronunciation: [kwˈə͡ʊtəz] (IPA)

Quotas are guidelines that require a certain level of performance or participation. Synonyms for quotas may include targets, goals, objectives, benchmarks, mandates, measures, norms, standards, or limits. These synonyms represent the expectations that are set in order to achieve success in a specific area. The use of different words to represent quotas may reflect the differences in their usage and implications; some synonyms emphasize the need for improvement or accomplishment, while others highlight the importance of compliance with established standards. Regardless of the term used, quotas serve as a necessary tool for setting expectations and achieving desired outcomes.

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What are the hypernyms for Quotas?

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Usage examples for Quotas

If the people are not ready with their money, the little barley, their winter's store, is seized, and they must pay afterwards their usual quotas of money.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
To settle the quotas and proportions in this House is clearly impossible.
"Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America"
Edmund Burke
Payments to Negro soldiers were at first complicated by the ignorance of the recipients, and the fact that the quotas of colored regiments from Northern States were largely filled by recruits from the South, unknown to their fellow soldiers.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois

Famous quotes with Quotas

  • We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category.
    Howard Coble
  • Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
    W. Edwards Deming
  • Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
    Gunter Grass
  • Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.
    Marvin Olasky

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