Quota system
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Quota System can refer to:
- Quota System (Royal Navy)Quota System (Royal Navy)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...
, a system in place from 1795 to 1815 for manning British naval ships - Reservations in India
- Quota Borda systemQuota Borda systemThe Quota Borda System or Quota Preference Score is a voting system that was devised by the British philosopher Michael Dummett and first published in 1984 in his book, Voting Procedures, and again in his Principles of Electoral Reform....
- Racial quota, in hiring minorities
- Import quotaImport quotaAn import quota is a type of protectionist trade restriction that sets a physical limit on the quantity of a good that can be imported into a country in a given period of time....
, in trade regulations - Ticket quotaTicket quotaTicket quotas are the minimal number of tickets to be issued by a law enforcement officer for issuing parking tickets, stopping people for moving violations, issuing quality of life summonses and even for making arrests...
, in PolicePoliceThe police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...
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