quota
The quota generally means the fixed and allocated amount of objects .
etymology
The word was taken over as a loan word ( French contingent ) in France in the 17th century and its pronunciation was based on the older Latin contingens, -entis ; both words mean something like "the part that comes to someone". At the time of the takeover into German, however, what was specifically meant was the troop contingent that a (partial) country had to raise; the general meaning later became common.
Today, in business, a quota is understood to be the state-set quota in terms of value or quantity to limit the range of goods .
use cases
Special use cases are for example:
- Troop contingent : a fixed number of soldiers ,
- Disk Quota : an artificially limited storage area on data carriers ,
- Import quota : a fixed import and / or export quantity for foreign trade ,
- Facility : a specified money line for transactions between credit institutions or with the central bank ,
- Quota refugee : the agreed number of refugees to be admitted per federal state in German immigration policy,
- Milk quota : a production cap in the agricultural market regime ,
- Production quota , a production cap for companies or entire industries ,
- Management by the state within the framework of rationing .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Hermann, Knaurs etymological dictionary , 1983, p. 270
- ↑ contingent . In: Duden
- ↑ contingent. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved September 30, 2019
- ↑ contingent . CNRTL
- ↑ Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler, Gablers Wirtschaftslexikon , Volume 3, 1984, Sp. 2485 f.