Meaning of judgment in English

judgment

noun

(also judgement)

/ˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt/ us

/ˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt/

judgment noun (DECIDE)

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C2 [ U ]

the ability to form valuable opinions and make good decisions:

to show good/sound/poor judgment

I don't think you have the right to pass judgment (on others) (= to say whether you think other people are good or bad).

I'm going to reserve judgment (on the decision) (= not say whether I think it is good or bad) for the time being.

B2 [ C ]

a decision or opinion about someone or something that you form after thinking carefully:

It proved difficult to come to/form/make a judgment about how well the school was performing.

Synonyms

appraisal
assessment
estimation (OPINION)
evaluation
rating

in someone's judgment

according to someone's opinion:

In my judgment, we should let the solicitor deal with this.

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Trust your own judgment and don't be guided by what anyone else thinks.
I have absolute faith in her judgment.
How could you humiliate me by questioning my judgment in front of everyone like that?
Are the company's current difficulties a result of bad luck or bad judgment?
I reserve judgment on this issue until we have more information.

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judgment noun (LEGAL)

[ C or U ]

an official legal decision:

It is the judgment of this court that you are guilty of murder.

We are still waiting for the court to pass/pronounce judgment (= give a decision) on the case.

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Idiom

against your better judgment

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judgment

noun [ C/U ]

(also judgement)

/ˈdʒʌdʒ·mənt/

judgment noun [C/U] (DECISIONS)

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the ability to make decisions or to make good decisions, or the act of developing an opinion, esp. after careful thought:

[ U ] to show good/poor judgment

[ U ] They questioned his judgment in buying land he had never seen.

A judgment is a decision:

[ C ] We were asked to make a number of difficult judgments.

judgment noun [C/U] (LAW)

a decision in a court of law

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judgment

noun

(UK also judgement)

/ˈdʒʌdʒmənt/ us

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[ C or U ]

a decision that you make, or an opinion that you have, after considering all the facts in a situation:

Shareholders should back the company's judgement and take up their rights.

Financial analysts make informed judgments about how stock markets are likely to perform.

make/form/reach a judgment (about/on sth) We tend to make judgments about people at work based on our first impressions.

[ U ]

the ability to make good decisions or to form sensible opinions about something:

Careful judgement will be needed in deciding whether it is trade policy or environmental policy which must be adjusted.

Newspaper editors are sometimes guilty of errors in judgement.

sound/good/poor judgment Sound judgment is essential because decisions we make directly affect people's health and safety.

professional/business judgment

exercise/use your judgment We rely on trustees to exercise their judgment in overseeing financial procedures

trust/doubt/question sb's judgment Junior employees are often reluctant to question the judgment of their bosses.

People should not be forced, against their better judgment, into taking out loans they cannot repay.

in sb's judgment In my judgement, this is the biggest foreign policy mistake the country has ever made.

[ C or U ] LAW

a final decision made by a judge in a court of law:

HM Revenue & Customs is using the recent judgement to argue that UK shareholders in offshore companies should pay income tax.

judgment against sb/sth They won a $2.8 million judgment against the insurer for shortchanging them for storm damage to their home.

a County Court/Supreme Court judgment

a €500,000/$16.8 million, etc. judgment She won a $450,000 judgment after convincing jurors she was subject to sexual harassment.

hand down/issue/uphold a judgment

pass judgment

to express an opinion, especially a criticism:

It's up to our court system, not individual citizens, to pass judgment and punish them.

pass judgment on sb/sth The shares were only floated this summer, so it is too early to pass judgement on their performance.

reserve judgment

to wait until more information about something is available before expressing an opinion, making a decision, or taking action:

People in the industry are reserving judgement until more details of the takeover emerge.

reserve judgment on/about sth The three appeal judges reserved judgment on both cases.

sit in judgment on sb

to criticize someone, especially when you have no right to do so:

Campaigners insist it is the job of politicians to govern, not to sit in moral judgment on people's lifestyles.

Examples of judgment

judgment

Efforts to sever judgments from such surrounding feelings and experience strike me as strained.

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We should be wary of judgments that depend on that very modern distinction between the public and the private.

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My conclusion is that truth judgments require a theistic framework.

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A decision to reach such judgments will not prove possible on impulse.

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The results clearly demonstrated that most three-year-olds can make metalinguistic judgments and productions in structured tasks, with overall metalinguistic performance improving with age in months.

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When we are involved in large-scale projects, we must make judgments on an individual basis about whether they are good or bad.

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As noted, linguistic studies routinely assess a speaker's competence through grammaticality judgments.

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Two key judgments must be made: one concerns adaptive behavior or development, and the other concerns the risks or threats to development.

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I have argued, however, that for cognitivist theories of language, the focus on grammaticality judgments is artificially narrow.

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The problem lies in the remarkable variety of alternative judgments.

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Chapter 11 considers the effect that context has on judgments of acceptability.

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Barbiers reports that informants had sophisticated judgments about dialect areas.

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A negative list of noninterchangeable types and cases guided the coders' judgments of interchangeability.

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Here a vote is taken only on the conclusion, and no collective judgments are made on other propositions.

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In the last case, they may include judgments on whether the war can be won, whether victory would be worth the cost, and so on.

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Collocations with judgment

judgment

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accurate judgment

First, it describes not just a cognitive process of judgment, but rather, the interpersonal process necessary for accurate judgment.

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aesthetic judgment

The aesthetic judgment of painting in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was hardly the property of any one political or social interest group.

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bad judgment

That was bad judgment, because it should remain on.

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What is the pronunciation of judgment?

Translations of judgment

in Chinese (Traditional)

判斷, 判斷力, 識別力…

in Chinese (Simplified)

判断, 判断力, 识别力…

in Spanish

juicio, criterio, valoración…

in Portuguese

juízo, julgamento, opinião [feminine]…

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जजमेंट, निर्णय घेण्यायोग्य मत तयार करण्याची विवेकबुद्धी, मत…

意見, 判断, 判決…

yargı, düşünce, fikir…

avis [masculine], jugement [masculine]…

valoració, judici, criteri…

విలువైన అభిప్రాయాలను ఏర్పరుచుకునే సామర్థ్యం, మంచి నిర్ణయాలు తీసుకునే సామర్థ్యం, జాగ్రత్తగా ఆలోచించిన తర్వాత మీరు ఎవరిపట్ల అయినా లేదా దేనిపట్ల అయినా ఏర్పరచుకునే అభిప్రాయం లేదా తీసుకునే నిర్ణయం…

حُكْم, حَصافة…

மதிப்புமிக்க கருத்துக்களை உருவாக்க மற்றும் நல்ல முடிவுகளை எடுக்கும் திறன், கவனமாக சிந்தித்த பிறகு ஒருவரைப் பற்றி அல்லது நீங்கள் உருவாக்கும் ஒன்றைப் பற்றிய முடிவு அல்லது கருத்து…

राय या निर्णय क्षमता, (किसी व्यक्ति या वस्तु के विषय में सोच विचार के बाद लिया गया) निर्णय…

রায়, বিচার…

નિર્ણયક્ષમતા, નિષ્કર્ષ…

pogląd, sąd, rozeznanie…

oppfatning [masculine], skjønn [neuter], vurdering [masculine]…

심사, 판단력, 판결…