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judgment call

noun

  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.

  2. any subjective or debatable determination; personal opinion or interpretation.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of judgment call1

First recorded in 1840–50
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“How do you put a value on those things? It’s a judgment call,” said Morales.

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“Senate parliamentarians are put in an impossible position because ‘merely incidental’ is inherently a judgment call.”

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For us, it's a judgment call: What feels like it's relevant to the issues that they're trying to figure out?

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Anything that falls outside of that should be viewed with presumptive immunity, but lower courts have to make a judgment call by asking themselves if the actions in question “enable the President to carry out his constitutional duties without undue caution.”

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“That depends on how intricate the sequences are going to be, how intimate. It’s a judgment call and a money call, and the money usually wins.”

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