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judgment call

(UK also judgement call)
 
 
noun [C]

Definition

a difficult decision that someone must make: Investors have to make a judgment call on how much risk they are willing to accept.
(Definition of judgment call noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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