Definitions for quota system
quo·ta sys·tem

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1. Quota System

   The Quota System, introduced by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1795, required each English county to provide a quota of men for the Royal Navy, based on its population and the number of its seaports — London, for example, had to provide 5,704 quotamen, while Yorkshire had to provide 1,081. The counties found it difficult to meet the quotas. Some offered high cash bounties to inexperienced volunteers, creating resentment among the regular seamen who, despite their experience, had received only a small fraction of that bounty on their own volunteering. Sometimes, the counties resorted to sending convicted criminals in lieu of punishment, further creating ill feeling among ships' companies, and sometimes introducing typhus. Britain ended the quota system, along with impressment, in 1815 at the close of the Napoleonic Wars, when much of the fleet was decommissioned, and the supply of unemployed seamen was more than adequate to man the remaining ships.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of quota system in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of quota system in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of quota system in a Sentence

1. Stanley Goldfarb:

   If you go back into the 1920s and thirties, it was Jews that were excluded as a definite category. And there was an interesting study done several years ago where someone wrote to the medical schools of the various medical schools around the country, and they acknowledged the fact that they had limited the number of Jewish applicants that they would accept. So … we totally reject this, we think that admission to medical schools should be based on merit and merit alone. And that and there are plenty of African-American students who are highly qualified and are worthy of admission to medical school, and they should be admitted to medical school if they so desire to enter medical school – but on the basis of the fact that they've achieved what they've achieved, not because of some desire to create some sort of quota system in medicine where every medical school class perfectly reflects the population in the United States. And even if one tries to do that … it ends up excluding many people – typically South Asians and East Asian individuals are the ones who end up getting excluded.

2. Mario Vincent:

   We see the quota system a bit like buying a franchise from McDonald's, it ensures that you won't have 10 McDonald's within a certain population. It makes sure you will have a guaranteed market.

3. Immigration Minister Inger Stojberg:

   It is the government's clear position that Denmark should not be part of any mandatory quota system where it is decided from Brussels how many asylum seekers we should take in Denmark, we do already take a significant co-responsibility and treat the asylum seekers here fairly.

4. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico:

   The quota system is irrational, and in our opinion will end up in disgrace.

References

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