quotaism

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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).

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Meanings

nounquotaism (uncountable)
  1. uncommonuncountableThe 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

From quota + -ism.

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Chicago

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