Definition of judgment call
: a subjective decision, ruling, or opinion
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Examples of judgment call in a Sentence
The rules aren't clear in this case, so officials are required to make a judgment call.
Recent Examples of judgment call from the Web
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Asking, or expecting, educators to make the difficult judgment call and have the expertise to shoot an intruder is completely unacceptable.
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By holding a fairly steady mix of stocks through thick and thin, index funds don't run the risk that a manager could make glaringly bad judgment calls like selling stocks right before a market surge.
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Constantly making judgment calls on other people’s utterances, sometimes by the dozens in stressful circumstances with uncertain boundaries, is draining.
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It's considered a judgment call, and the league told Pro Football Talk that the referees in the Super Bowl decided that Jeffery was close enough.
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Fineran also views the basketball play as a judgment call, not a rule interpretation.
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Nationally, 42 percent of the four million allegations received in 2015, involving 7.2 million children, were screened out, often based on sound legal reasoning but also because of judgment calls, opinions, biases and beliefs.
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Enforcing such a policy can require multiple judgment calls.
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Everybody at one time or another has made a judgment call that has cost them a friend or loved one or tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of diamonds.
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First Known Use of judgment call
1847
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Definition of judgment call for English Language Learners
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: a decision that is based on your opinion
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