Does our State intend to send only half or a third of their quota?
Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution|John Adams
At evening, being awakened by Kit, he and his quota of men arose to do sentinel duty during the first half of the night.
A Gentleman Player|Robert Neilson Stephens
The writer has found it furnishing at least its quota in recent years and in apparently increasing volume.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine|Walter H. Rich
Messidor brought its quota of wild roses in the hedgerows, just as archaic June had done.
I Will Repay|Baroness Emmuska Orczy
British Dictionary definitions for quota
quota
/ (ˈkwəʊtə) /
noun
the proportional share or part of a whole that is due from, due to, or allocated to a person or group
a prescribed number or quantity, as of items to be manufactured, imported, or exported, immigrants admitted to a country, or students admitted to a college
Word Origin for quota
C17: from Latin quota pars how big a share?, from quotus of what number