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Adjudication vs Judging - What's the difference?

adjudication | judging |

As nouns the difference between adjudication and judging

is that adjudication is the act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement while judging is the act of making a judgment.

As a verb judging is

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adjudication

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
  • A judgment or sentence.
  • * Burke
  • An adjudication in favour of natural rights.
  • * 2007 , Houston Chronicle (6/17/2007)
  • [Mr. C.] says he confessed to avoid a lengthier sentence after his original attorney told him that the prosecutor claimed DNA evidence conclusively identified him as the attacker. [Mr. C.] had an earlier deferred adjudication for indecency with a minor.
  • (legal) The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
  • (Abbott)
  • (emergency response) The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
  • (legal, Scotland) A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.
  • judging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a judgment.
  • * 2004 , Dale Jacquette, The Cambridge Companion to Brentano (page 75)
  • It is the contrasts between blind and self-evident judgings and between blind and correct affective attitudes which provide Brentano with the beginnings of an account of the dynamics of the mind which involves more than merely causal claims.