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a system, originally determined by legislation in 1921, of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year.

a policy of limiting the number of minority group members in a business firm, school, etc.

any hiring or admissions policy requiring that a specified number or percentage of minority group members be hired or admitted.

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Origin of quota system

First recorded in 1920–25

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How to use quota system in a sentence

The quota system, perhaps unwittingly, provides judges an incentive to rule in favor of beneficiaries.
Social Security judges must resolve 500 to 700 disputes per year. A watchdog says that might be too many.|Joe Davidson|July 30, 2021|Washington Post
The situation, dubbed buttergate by the Canadian media, exposed a complicated quota system in Canada that protects dairy producers from price fluctuations but also incentivized and prioritized the industry’s production over consumer preferences.
The economics driving Canada’s “buttergate”|Karen Ho|March 4, 2021|Quartz
Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea|Rich Goldstein|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The league is not going to move to the absurdity of a quota system.
NBA All-Star Game: White Men Can't Root|Buzz Bissinger|February 17, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Selective Service wanted to eliminate the quota system altogether.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965|Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.

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