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judgment call

判断,判断力,判断题,判断判断

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
    • : any subjective or debatable determination; personal opinion or interpretation.

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Examples

  • Granting pretrial release is a judgment call with high stakes.

  • This came Wednesday night at Wrigley Field, with a judgment call by home plate umpire Chris Conroy.

  • Interesting that those who sat in judgment of him found those two sets of beliefs to be incompatible.

  • If so, he has his silence -- on top of poor judgment -- to blame.

  • Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.

  • This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo.

  • Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

  • Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.

  • But it seems to me that with adolescence comes the right to knowledge and the right of judgment.

  • Now for the tempering of the Gudgeons, I leave it to the judgment of the Workman; but a word or two of the polishing of it.

  • It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.

  • After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.