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Quota vs Nonquota - What's the difference?

quota | nonquota |

As a noun quota

is a proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

As an adjective nonquota is

not included in a quota.

quota

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club 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).}}
  • (business, economics) A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.

    • Synonyms

    * (proportional part) allocation, allotment, apportionment, quotum

    Related terms

    * numerus clausus ----

    nonquota

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not included in a quota
  • *{{quote-news, 1988, January 29, Steve Bogira, School Desegregation, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=More "nonquota " teachers--teachers not assigned to a classroom but to a special program--are allotted magnet schools than segregated schools