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Word Meanings - QUOTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. "Quota of troops and money." Motley. (more info) what in number, of what number, how many, fr. quot how many, akin to

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  • CONTINGENT
    Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
  • SHAREBEAM
    The part of the plow to which the share is attached.
  • PORTIONIST
    One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
  • DIVISIONARY
    Divisional.
  • DIVISIONALLY
    So as to be divisional.
  • PARTICIPATION
    1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of
  • QUOTABLE
    Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence. -- Quot`a*bit"i*ty, n. Poe.
  • QUOTATIONIST
    One who makes, or is given to making, quotations. The narrow intellectuals of quotationists. Milton.
  • SHAREBROKER
    A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.
  • QUOTA
    A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. "Quota of troops and money." Motley. (more info) what in number, of what number, how many, fr. quot how many, akin to
  • DIVISIONAL
    That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
  • CONTINGENTLY
    In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
  • PORTION
    1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. 2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard
  • PORTIONER
    See 2 (more info) 1. One who portions.
  • SHAREWORT
    A composite plant growing along the seacoast of Europe.
  • ALLOWANCE
    A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. (more info) 1. Approval; approbation. Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission;
  • PORTIONLESS
    Having no portion.
  • ALLOTMENT
    The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. (more info) 1. The act of allotting; assignment.
  • SHARER
    One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer.
  • DIVISIONOR
    One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • DISPROPORTIONALITY
    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
  • DISPROPORTIONABLE
    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • PROPORTIONATE
    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
  • MISDIVISION
    Wrong division.
  • REAPPORTIONMENT
    A second or a new apportionment.
  • MISPROPORTION
    To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
  • DISPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
  • PROPORTION
    1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
  • PROPORTIONABLE
    Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke.
  • IMPROPORTIONABLE
    Not proportionable. B. Jonson.

 

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