Multitude vs Quota - What's the difference?
multitude | quota | Related terms |
A great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance.
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The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses
* Pilate, wishing to please the multitude , released Barabbas to them.
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.
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(business, economics) A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.
Multitude is a related term of quota.
As nouns the difference between multitude and quota
is that multitude is a great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance while quota is a proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.multitude
English
(wikipedia multitude)Noun
(en noun)- A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
Synonyms
* hantel/hantleDerived terms
* multitudinousquota
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).}}
