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quotaism

quotaism noun: the practice of taking a certain action to fulfil a quota, regardless of the action's merits (for example, ensuring that 10% of students admitted to a college are from a certain ethnic group, regardless of their qualifications).

Noun

quotaism (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) The practice of taking a certain action to fulfil a quota, regardless of the action's merits (for example, ensuring that 10% of students admitted to a college are from a certain ethnic group, regardless of their qualifications).
    • One night of television a week was given over to “Slovak night,” a practice many Czechs found annoying, seeing it merely as quotaism and adding nothing to the quality of the broadcast.2000, Michael Kraus, Allison Stanger, Irreconcilable Differences?, →ISBN, page 172

Origin of quotaism

From quota + -ism.

Questions about quotaism

What does quotaism mean?
Quotaism means the practice of taking a certain action to fulfil a quota, regardless of the action's merits (for example, ensuring that 10% of students admitted to a college are from a certain ethnic group, regardless of their qualifications).
What part of speech is quotaism?
Quotaism is a noun.

Words near quotaism in the dictionary

  1. quotabilities
  2. quotability
  3. quotable
  4. quotableness
  5. quotably
  6. quotaism
  7. quotaless
  8. quotalike
  9. quotas
  10. quotation
  11. quotation dash

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