noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
export controls/restrictions/quotas (= official limits on the number of exports )
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The European Parliament wants tougher export controls on certain goods.
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The number of goods subject to import and export quotas is being reduced.
import quotas (= limits on the number of imports allowed )
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Each country introduced its own import quotas.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fishing
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This means that fishing quotas are likely to fall in coming years in order to preserve the long-term future of the fisheries.
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The Community system of fishing quotas 63.
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A complex settlement of this problem was not reached until January 1983, when Britain effectively got one-third of the fishing quotas .
full
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The full quota of how many and whose scripts went west in this rethink will probably never be known.
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Once a chariot has taken its full quota of wounds it is destroyed.
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She was comforted, being able to lay the full quota of blame at her dead sister's door.
national
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These are national quotas and must be removed or harmonised once frontier controls are eliminated.
racial
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Thomas was renowned as a vigorous opponent of affirmative action or reverse discrimination, espousing minority self-help rather than racial quotas .
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Respondent, echoing the courts below, labels it a racial quota .
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Preferential racial quotas in education violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 39.
■ NOUN
export
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But production quotas would be even more difficult to enforce than export quotas.
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An export quota for sawn timber has not yet been set.
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After their system of export quotas broke down in 1989, world coffee prices almost halved.
import
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For example, the enactment of import quotas , designed to compensate particular industrial supporters, may impose substantial additional costs.
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Conversely, suppose the United States was to solve its trade imbalance by imposing import quotas .
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Note also that with both the import quotas , the increase in the domestic firms' profits was substantial.
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Most important for our day is the almost universal support among economists for free trade and opposition to tariffs and import quotas .
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I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year's import quota .
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The higher import quota also means greater volume and higher profit margins for other refiners like Alexander&038;.
milk
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Butter mountains loom above lakes of olive oil. Milk quotas have been introduced to limit the output of over-productive herds.
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There were a number of dairy farmers whose uncertainty about milk quotas was reflected in their responses.
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Mr MacSharry wants to lower milk quotas and to cut guaranteed prices for dairy products, cereals and beef.
production
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All production quotas and standardised spook pools.
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Adelina has yet to reach her production quota .
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But production quotas would be even more difficult to enforce than export quotas.
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More often than not he managed supervision, set production quotas , controlled purchasing and distribution.
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The Authority's proposals had involved the imposition of import controls and production quotas .
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In 1986, with the Community still awash with milk, production quotas were imposed on dairy farmers.
sample
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Opinion polls in Britain are almost always conducted on quota samples .
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These are: random samples . quota samples.
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Among the inheritance of this type of survey are procedures known as the quota sample and the attitude questionnaire.
system
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Since 1944, for example, we have had a quota system which has never been effectively operated under Governments of either party.
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For twenty-five years women in this country have been arguing for quota systems so that women will be proportionately represented in politics.
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The quota system did it; there was a milk glut.
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At that time, the quota system would have been eliminated.
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Jan Hoet, the curator of Documenta 9, does no believe in quota systems .
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That objective was in keeping with the aims of the quota system .
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He accepted there had been an unofficial quota system to limit the number of women serving in the department.
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However, the party's representation flounders when it is freed from the rigours of the quota system .
■ VERB
achieve
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I was given soup from the middle pot, meaning I had just managed to achieve my work quota .
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Since I had not achieved my weekly quota of aggravation and misery, I went out and played golf last Saturday.
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And will the plant achieve its quota of employees with disabilities?
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When Sheila Sheffield fails to achieve her quota for the quarter, he helps Sheila discover the reasons.
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The most obvious practical implication of strokes is that we need to help people achieve their stroke quotas .
exceed
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You should check that you have not exceeded your disk quota .
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Applications had vastly exceeded the quota within a few days, reports said.
fill
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But the champions had already filled their overseas quota with Andrew Farrar.
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Because it can be sure of filling at least one quota , a big party can be sure of winning at least one seat.
impose
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Conversely, suppose the United States was to solve its trade imbalance by imposing import quotas .
meet
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This was enacted in 1944 and uses criminal prosecution as a sanction for an employer who fails to meet the disabled quota .
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They had difficulty in meeting their diocesan quota as it was.
reach
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Out of the 165 members elected only 25 reached the quota thanks to first-preference votes alone.
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Adelina has yet to reach her production quota .
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Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota .
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It may be lucky enough to win some seats without reaching the quota .
reduce
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At subsequent meetings efforts could be made to reduce this quota further.
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By 1961 internal tariff barriers had been substantially reduced and quota restrictions on industrial products had been largely eliminated.
set
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It is not always easy to get up to date information on which to set the quotas , especially in a small area sample.
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Perhaps a new manager had set an unrealistic quota for a subordinate because of his or her limited experience in setting quotas.
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It has set a total quota for all pelagic species of just 60,000 tonnes for 1991.
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More often than not he managed supervision, set production quotas , controlled purchasing and distribution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a meeting of OPEC countries to discuss production quotas
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a strict quota on imports
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An agreement on fishing quotas was reached by EU ministers yesterday.
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I think I've had my quota of coffee for the day.
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Most countries have an immigration quota .
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Several countries imposed quotas on imports of Japanese cars.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Boylan added that ethnic quotas are not imposed on state delegations to the convention.
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Even the luggage racks contained their quota of sailors, soldiers, or airmen.
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How efficient the place was - a model clearing house for death, turning out its yearly quota of corpses.
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Respondent, echoing the courts below, labels it a racial quota .
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Since 1944, for example, we have had a quota system which has never been effectively operated under Governments of either party.
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That brings Nuala O'Fail up to a quota .
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The traffic policemen used the Puerto Rican neighborhood to dump their quota of tickets.