A just part or share; or the share, part or proportion assigned to each. Each state was ordered to furnish its quota of troops.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence.
2. The passage quoted or cited; the part of a book or writing named, repeated or adduced as evidence or illustration.
3. In mercantile language, the naming of the price of commodities; or the price specified to a correspondent.
4. Quota; share. [Not used.]
2. That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.
3. The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.
4. Quota; share.
One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.
Apportionment Roget’s Thesaurus §786
N. apportionment, allotment, consignment, # assignment, appointment, appropriation, dispensation, distribution, division, deal, repartition, partition, administration, dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose, dole, meed, pittance, quantum, ration, ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance, suerte
V. apportion, divide, distribute, administer, dispense, billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete, portion out, parcel out, dole out, deal, carve, allocate, ration, ration out, assign, separate, partition, assign, appropriate, appoint, come in for one's share
Adj. apportioning, respective
Adv. respectively, each to each
Expenditure Roget’s Thesaurus §809
N. expenditure, money going out, out goings, out # lay, expenses, disbursement, prime cost, circulation, run upon a bank, payment, pay, bribe, fee, footing, garnish, subsidy, tribute, contingent, quota, donation, pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment, investment, purchase
V. expend, spend, run through, get through, pay, disburse, ante, ante up, pony up*, open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings, lay out, shell out*, fork out*, fork over, bleed, make up a sum, invest, sink money, run up debts, run up bills (debt) 806, fee, pay one's way, subscribe, subsidize
Phr. vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae
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0 KJV and 6 BSB verses contain “Quota”
And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.