quo·ta 
(kwōtə)
(kwōtə)n.
1. A proportional share, as of goods, assigned to a group or to each member of a group; an allotment.
2. A production assignment.
3.
a. A number or percentage, especially of people, constituting or designated as an upper limit: a country with strict annual immigration quotas.
b. A number or percentage, especially of people, constituting a required or targeted minimum: a system of quotas for hiring minority applicants.
[Medieval Latin, from Latin quota (pars), how large (a part), feminine of quotus, of what number; see QUOTE.]
- livelihood
- livelily
- liveliness
- live load
- livelong
- lively
- liven
- liveness
- live oak
- live off/on the fat of the land
- live off the fat of the land
- live on the fat of the land
- live out
- live parking
- liver
- liver
- liver extract
- liver fluke
- liveried
- liverish
- liverishness
- liverleaf
- Livermore
- livermorium
- Liverpool