best judgment

collocation in English

meaningsofbestandjudgment

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best
adjective
uk
/best/us
/best/
of the highest quality, or being the most suitable, pleasing, or effective type of thing ...
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judgment
noun
uk
/ˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt/us
/ˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt/
the ability to form valuable opinions and make ...
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(Definition ofbestandjudgmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Each distribution represents our uncertainty about a specific parameter, given what data we have access to, or ourbestjudgmentin the absence of data.
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At least, it does on a plausible reading of 'ownbestjudgment'.
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In both cases we override the agent's ownbestjudgmentand in neither case do we recommend a way of life that the agent, once in it, will find onerous.
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The physician's freedom to treat patients according to herbestjudgment, for example, is a direct result of her membership in a supporting institution - namely, a self-regulating professional body.
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We have examined the matter carefully and have arrived at thebestjudgmentwe could make.
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All of them will have to try to make thebestjudgmentpossible in new and very different circumstances.
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They are spending their own money, and they can make thebestjudgmentof the local needs of their own people.
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I have released, on thebestjudgmentavailable to me, more than 200 of those who were interned.
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We try to make thebestjudgmentpossible in all the circumstances.
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But we must use thebestjudgmentwe can.
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It certainly cannot enable us to make—in all our individual ways—thebestjudgmentthat we can.
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It is for local decision makers to make theirbestjudgmentin consultation with those affected, including parents and, where appropriate, young people themselves.
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The implementation of the policies must be for thebestjudgmentof the indiviual authorities.
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We worked on the matter carefully and thought that that was thebestjudgmentalthough, of course, some local authorities disagree.
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We must, therefore, limit it by ourbestjudgmentof what is in the competitive interest of our pharmaceutical industry.
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I am perfectly satisfied that the best knowledge, the best information and thebestjudgmenton matters such as this are with the county council.
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I can only repeat that at present, in ourbestjudgment, there is not a practical alternative to this proposal.
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In considering what material is required to be disclosed to the accused, the prosecutor will bring hisbestjudgmentto bear.
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They have to use theirbestjudgmentin the light of the feelings and claims of the rest of the community.
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In such cases one has to fall back on common sense and one'sbestjudgment.
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