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quotaism en · NOUN

Etymology

From quota + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncommon, uncountable) 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: