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the invisible finish line that turns Tuesday into a referendum on your entire worth
means A fixed share, number, or amount that's either required to be met or allowed as a maximum, often imposed on production, sales, immigration, or representation.
from From Latin 'quota pars'—literally 'how great a part,' from 'quotus' meaning 'of what number' (itself from 'quot,' 'how many'). The phrase asked the bookkeeper's eternal question: what's each person's slice of the whole? English clipped it down to just 'quota' by the early 17th century, keeping the arithmetic and losing the philosophy.
- latin root
- From 'quota pars,' meaning 'how great a part'
- sales curse
- Roughly half of reps miss it yearly by design
- fishing limits
- Catch quotas saved cod stocks from total collapse
- immigration history
- US once capped arrivals by national-origin percentages
- perverse math
- Soviet nail factories hit quotas making one giant useless nail
imc fishing quotas — annual catch limits set by the indian mackerel commission across indian ocean nations, measured in thousands of tons
eu milk quota system — production limits imposed on eu dairy farmers from 1984-2015, capped at 117 million tons annually
us immigration visa quota — annual limit of 226,000 family-sponsored immigrant visas set by congress under current law