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quota | quoth |

As a noun quota

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

As a verb quoth is

simple past of quethe; said.

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 ----

    quoth

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic, or, literary) (quethe); said
  • * 19th century ,
    • “Pull, if ye never pull’d before;
    Good ringers, pull your best,” quoth he.
  • * 1845
    • Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!
    Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
  • *:“Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow,” quoth Robin, “thou seemest happy this merry morn.”
  • *:“Ay, that am I,” quoth the jolly Butcher, “and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?”